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Wood Burning Linked To Nearly 2,500 U.K. Deaths A Year, Study Finds The new research claims air pollution from burning wood in the home contributes an average of 3,741 new cases of diabetes and 1,493 new cases of asthma in the U.K. a year.

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24.10.2025 16:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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No prosecutions made after 15,195 wood-burning complaints in a year in England Campaigners say figures reveal a lack of enforcement with just 24 fines issued by councils for rule violations

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23.10.2025 09:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Wood burners linked to 2,500 deaths a year in the UK, analysis finds Use of wood-burning stoves and fires in homes is mostly unnecessary and their toxic pollution costs the NHS millions

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23.10.2025 09:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Dorset campaigners warn children's health will suffer if more isn't done to stop wood burning Dorset campaigners warn children's health will suffer if more isn't done to stop wood burning

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23.10.2025 09:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The impact of prolonged air pollution exposure on urinary tract and male reproductive system infections: insights from a large-scale prospective cohort study - BMC Public Health To assess the link between long-term air pollution exposure and the risk of urinary tract infections (UTIs) and male reproductive system infections (MRSIs), which significantly impact incidence and quality of life. This prospective cohort study included 375,833 participants from the UK Biobank. We used a Cox proportional hazards model, adjusting for covariates, to evaluate the association between exposure to air pollutants (PM2.5, PMcoarse, PM10, NO2, and NOx) and the risk of UTIs and MRSIs. Nonlinear exposure-response relationships were assessed with restricted cubic splines, and subgroup analyses were conducted to examine potential effect modifiers. Over a median follow-up of 12.4 years, 26,279 new UTIs and 3,545 MRSI cases were detected. It was found that there were significant connections between the likelihood of developing UTIs and being exposed to PM2.5 (hazard ratios (HRs): 1.43, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.34–1.53), PMcoarse (HR: 1.17, 95% CI: 1.08–1.27), PM10 (HR: 1.24, 95% CI: 1.15–1.34), NO2 (HR: 1.10, 95% CI: 1.08–1.12), and NOx (HR: 1.09, 95% CI: 1.07–1.11). Similar associations were found for MRSIs. Restricted cubic spline analyses revealed non-linear exposure-response relationships for all pollutants. The strength of these connections was validated through sensitivity analyses. Long-term exposure to air pollutants is associated with a higher risk of UTIs and MRSIs, emphasizing the urgent need to improve air quality to mitigate these health risks.

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09.10.2025 08:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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She Found a Link Between Air Pollution and Infertility

She Found a Link Between Air Pollution and Infertility www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

09.10.2025 08:11 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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How air pollution relates to chronic pain in middle-aged and older adults: a Nationwide cohort study AbstractObjectives. This study aimed to investigate the longitudinal associations between chronic pain and NO2, O3, PM1, PM2.5 and PM10 amongst middle-aged

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08.10.2025 13:54 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Sandbanks Volleyball Club struggles with fumes from nearby sauna Mark Fry says playing near the sauna is like "being next to someone who's got a barbecue going".

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08.10.2025 13:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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30.09.2025 10:04 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Indoor wood burners linked to a decline in lung function Using a wood burning stove at home can lead to a decline in lung function, according to research presented at the European Respiratory Society Congress in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

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30.09.2025 10:03 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Discussie over houtstook smeult ook lokaal verder LANDELIJK – De voorlichtingscampagne ‘Eerlijk over houtstook’ van Milieu Centraal mag doorgaan. Dat heeft de Reclame Code Commissie (RCC) bepaald na een klacht van de Nederlandse Haarden- en Kachelbra...

Discussie over houtstook smeult ook lokaal verder www.kobr.nl/nieuws/algem...

26.08.2025 03:27 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Reducing Air Pollution Critical for People with Asthma The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA) issues statement on the importance of reducing air pollution and promoting cleaner air.

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31.07.2025 02:56 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Air Pollution Linked to Cancer-Causing Gene Changes in Nonsmokers For nonsmokers, air pollution may be an even greater risk factor for lung cancer than secondhand tobacco smoke, a study published in Nature suggests.

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26.07.2025 04:32 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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Many Lung Cancers Are Now in Nonsmokers. Scientists Want to Know Why.

Many Lung Cancers Are Now in Nonsmokers. Scientists Want to Know Why. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/w...

24.07.2025 05:54 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Effects of air pollution and noise exposure on occupational hearing loss in oil workers: a prospective cohort study - BMC Public Health Background Occupational Hearing Loss (OHL) is a significant health concern among oil workers, influenced by environmental and occupational factors. This study investigates the independent and synergis...

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23.07.2025 16:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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In India, Air Pollution Can Increase The Risk Of Preterm Birth: Study Prenatal exposure to air pollution could increase the risk of a preterm birth by at least 12% and a 5% higher risk of low birth weight — especially in North India.

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23.07.2025 16:53 — 👍 0    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Brown Carbon Light Absorption over India: Research Status and Need for Discerning Climate Impacts Brown carbon (BrC) absorbs solar radiation and influences the regional and global climate. A major pollutant in India, BrC absorption has received reasonable research attention, with studies focusing ...

Brown Carbon Light Absorption over India: Research Status and Need for Discerning Climate Impacts | ACS ES&T Air pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

20.07.2025 06:29 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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20.07.2025 06:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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One billion Africans being harmed by cooking pollution One billion Africans have to cook on open fires or with fuel that is hazardous to their health and the environment, the International Energy Agency said Friday.

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19.07.2025 03:16 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Associations between life course exposure to ambient air pollution with cognition and later-life brain structure: a population-based study of the 1946 British Birth Cohort Acknowledging the probable effects of exposure early in life, higher exposure to nitrogen dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and coarse particulate matter in midlife to older age was associated with poorer cog...

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18.07.2025 06:07 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Air pollution and brain health The global burden of dementia is increasing as the population ages. The number of people with dementia in the world is 57 million and is predicted to increase to 153 million by 2050,1 driving a global...

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18.07.2025 06:05 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Prognosis of air quality index and air pollution using machine learning techniques - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Prognosis of air quality index and air pollution using machine learning techniques

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17.07.2025 03:06 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Impact of exposure to ambient air pollution on health related quality of life of rural elderly in western China - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Impact of exposure to ambient air pollution on health related quality of life of rural elderly in western China

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17.07.2025 03:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The hidden health risks of wood-burning and eco stoves in homes Households are being warned about the dangers of wood-burning stoves, including modern eco-design models, as a new study by the University of Surrey's Global Center for Clean Air Research (GCARE) has ...

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15.07.2025 16:09 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Air Pollution Can Speed Aging, New Study Finds, but Measuring Other Factors Is Challenging - Inside Climate News Considering environmental factors is critical to understanding what drives the physical and cognitive declines, the researchers find in broad survey.

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15.07.2025 13:34 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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China’s success in cleaning up air pollution may have accelerated global warming: Study Efforts to clean up air pollution in China and across East Asia may have inadvertently contributed to a spike in global warming, a new study has found. The decline in aerosol emissions — which can …

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15.07.2025 13:32 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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UK air pollution falling but danger levels still breached too often, say scientists NO2 and PM2.5 levels down significantly since 2015 but climate crisis may be driving rise in harmful surface ozone

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15.07.2025 13:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Air pollution controls weaker for larger emitters, research finds Diesel generators allowed to emit 48 times more nitrogen oxides than gas boilers producing same amount of energy

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11.07.2025 05:02 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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