An overview of natural and anthropogenic sources of ultrafine airborne particles: analytical determination to assess the multielemental profiles

P Smichowski, DR Gómez - Applied Spectroscopy Reviews, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Studies on the origin, transformation and fate of ultrafine atmospheric aerosols have gained
attention because of the increasing number of small particles discharged into the …

Associations between dust exposure and hospitalizations in a dust-prone city, Lubbock, TX, USA

E Herrera-Molina, TE Gill, G Ibarra-Mejia… - Air Quality, Atmosphere …, 2024 - Springer
Although it is a growing area of investigation in the Global Dust Belt, only a few population-
level studies have evaluated the human health associations of windblown dust in North …

Potential contamination and health risk assessment of heavy metals in Hurghada coastal sediments, Northwestern Red Sea

AS El-Sorogy, MH Al-Hashim, SA Almadani… - Marine Pollution …, 2024 - Elsevier
Throughout the year, people flock to the Red Sea's shoreline for tourism and fishing. The
current study aims to document heavy metal contamination and human health assessment …

Investigating the impact factors of dust emission efficiency over gobi with portable wind tunnel field experiments

L Liang, S Ma, W Zhang, L Tan, S Chen… - Earth Surface …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The contribution of the gobi to dust emission in arid northwestern China is largely uncertain
due to the lack of studies on the surface properties of gobi. The dust emission efficiency (η) …

Harmful dust from drying lakes: Preserving Great Salt Lake (USA) water levels decreases ambient dust and racial disparities in population exposure

SE Grineski, DV Mallia, TW Collins, M Araos, JC Lin… - One Earth, 2024 - cell.com
Lake desiccation is a global problem associated with increased human water use and
climate change. Like other drying lakes, Utah's Great Salt Lake (GSL) is producing health …

Association of Asian dust storms and PM2. 5 with clinical visits for respiratory diseases in children

HJ Wen, SL Wang, CD Wu, MC Liang - Atmospheric Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
East Asia dust storms originated in China, bringing abundant suspended particulate matters
(PMs), are investigated to examine the association of their arrivals and clinical visits for …

[HTML][HTML] Characterization of 21 years of dust events across four West Texas regions

MC Robinson, K Ardon-Dryer - Aeolian Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Dust events are caused by strong winds that lift dust particles into the air. Due to surrounding
deserts and agriculture, West Texas experiences many dust events. This study examines …

Investigating the impact of air pollution and temperature changes on emergency admissions (cardiovascular+ respiratory) disease in the city of Bojnord, northeastern …

A Rastegar, M Ghorbanian, A Hosseinzadeh… - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
Cardiovascular (CVD)+ Respiratory diseases are recognized as the main cause of death
worldwide. Fluctuations in temperature and air pollution have been reported as one of the …

Multi-faceted analysis of dust storm from satellite imagery, ground station, and model simulations, a study in China

J Li, MS Wong, G Shi - Atmospheric Research, 2024 - Elsevier
An intense dust storm from 8 April to 11 April 2023 originated from the Gobi deserts
bordering Mongolia and Inner Mongolia of China and affected most parts of northern …

[PDF][PDF] Detection & Attribution of Climate Change Impacts on Human Health

D James - Wellcome Open Res, 2024 - wellcomeopenresearch.org
The purpose of this project was to define the current state-of-the-art in the detection and
attribution of human health impacts of human-caused climate change, sometimes shortened …