Infant mortality is the death of an infant before the infant's first birthday. The occurrence of infant mortality in a population can be described by the...
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mortality from lung cancer. A third study of over 5,000 carbon black workers in the United States did not show elevated mortality. Newer findings of increased...
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of delivered energy depending on location, storage operation mode, and assumptions regarding carbon intensity. The metric levelized avoided cost of energy...
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fetus, leading to an accumulation of the toxic chemical. The level of fetal morbidity and mortality in acute carbon monoxide poisoning is significant...
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Air pollution (redirect from Economic cost of air pollution)
"Global estimation of mortality, disability-adjusted life years and welfare cost from exposure to ambient air pollution". Science of the Total Environment...
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atmospheric carbon dioxide, extraction of carbon from seawater has been studied. Researchers have estimated that carbon extraction from seawater would cost about...
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Climate change mitigation (redirect from Carbon cycle re-balancing)
carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. Current climate change mitigation policies are insufficient as they would still result in global warming of...
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Emissions trading (section Market and least-cost)
emissions of pollutants. The concept is also known as cap and trade (CAT) or emissions trading scheme (ETS). One prominent example is carbon emission trading...
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Chemically, black carbon (BC) is a component of fine particulate matter (PM ≤ 2.5 μm in aerodynamic diameter). Black carbon consists of pure carbon in several...
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Coal (redirect from Types of coal)
seams. Coal is mostly carbon with variable amounts of other elements, chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen. Coal is a type of fossil fuel, formed...
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2021 in climate change (category History of climate variability and change)
PMC 7260949. PMID 32366654. ● Bressler, R. Daniel (29 July 2021). "The mortality cost of carbon". Nature Communications. 12 (1): 4467. Bibcode:2021NatCo..12.4467B...
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Climate change (redirect from Heating of the earth)
These gases absorb some of the heat that the Earth radiates after it warms from sunlight, warming the lower atmosphere. Carbon dioxide, the primary greenhouse...
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Masimo (category Medical technology companies of the United States)
studies have shown that SpCO helps clinicians increase the detection of carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning and decreases the time to treatment compared to...
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Pollution (redirect from Cost of pollution)
flotation (DAF) Powdered activated carbon treatment Ultrafiltration Vapor recovery systems Phytoremediation Pollution has a cost. Manufacturing activities that...
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Stainless steel (redirect from The history of stainless steel)
is an alloy of iron that is resistant to rusting and corrosion. It contains iron with chromium and other elements such as molybdenum, carbon, nickel and...
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countries only include the cost to produce the electrical energy, and do not take into account the social cost of carbon or the indirect costs associated...
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Saturated fat (redirect from Health effects of saturated fat)
a type of fat in which the fatty acid chains have all single bonds between the carbon atoms. A fat known as a glyceride is made of two kinds of smaller...
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Wildfire (redirect from Health effects of wildfires)
Hayley Warren; Akshat Rathi (10 February 2020). "Measuring the Carbon-Dioxide Cost of Last Year's Worldwide Wildfires". Bloomberg. Archived from the original...
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of carbon dioxide each year, about one fifth of world greenhouse gas emissions, so are the single largest cause of climate change. More than half of all...
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Climate change in India (redirect from Carbon emissions in India)
social cost of carbon. A report by the London-based global think tank Overseas Development Institute found that India may lose anywhere around 3–10% of its...
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Water treatment (redirect from Cleaning of water)
number of studies to remove heavy metals and other types of contaminants from wastewater. The cost of activated carbon is rising due to a shortage of commercial...
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Green New Deal (category Low-carbon economy)
and high-speed rail systems, and implementing the "social cost of carbon" that had been part of the Obama administration's plan for addressing climate change...
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Deforestation (redirect from Economic effects of deforestation)
forests. These are areas of mature rainforest that are especially important for biodiversity and carbon storage. The direct cause of most deforestation is...
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sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and carbon monoxide, all related to fuel combustion). These different forms of pollution have different effects on people's...
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Nuclear power (section Carbon emissions)
Reichenberg, Lina (15 March 2020). "The cost of a future low-carbon electricity system without nuclear power – the case of Sweden". Energy. 195: 117015. arXiv:2001...
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Choking game (section Mechanisms of effect)
induce a brief sense of euphoria (a rushing sensation or high). The prospect of intoxication, albeit brief, at no financial cost. Reasons for practice...
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animals' mortality and growth rate. Adult fish showed remarkable tolerance to elevated carbon dioxide levels, only when dissolution of carbon dioxide occurred...
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Biofuel (section Extent of production and use)
result of biofuel production. In general, biofuels emit fewer greenhouse gas emissions when burned in an engine and are generally considered carbon-neutral...
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addition of any bacteriostatic agents.[citation needed] A review by the World Health Organization found slightly reduced cardiovascular disease mortality from...
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when isolated from the electric grid, produce negligible amounts of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, mercury and radioactive...
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