Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has disrupted health, economy, and society globally. Thus, many countries, including China, have adopted lockdowns to prevent the epidemic, which has limited human activities while affecting air quality. These affects have received attention from academics, but very ...
One of the main changes COVID-19 has brought is the increase of concern about indoor air quality. While outdoor air quality has always been part of the conversation due to its connection with pollution, the breakout of COVID-19 made people everywhere more aware of the air inside their home...
Air pollution Particulate matter Air quality Atmospheric pollution Wind speed COVID-19 Coronavirus disease SARS-CoV-2 Environment and Health Urban environment Public health Environmental policy 1. Introduction and goal of the scientific investigation This study has the main goal to investigate, in environ...
How Do Inflammatory Mediators, Immune Response and Air Pollution Contribute to COVID-19 Disease Severity? A Lesson to Learn.doi:10.3390/LIFE11030182Cinzia SignoriniPatrizia PignattiTeresa CocciniMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
[16], a target set out in the Paris Agreement [17]. This equals a reduction in global emissions similar to that observed during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, where lockdown measures led to a temporary global drop in carbon dioxide emissions between 4.2% and 7.5% in ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the tourism and hotel industries, particularly the hotel industry along the coast of China. Tourism development requires sufficient personnel, but the hotel industry currently has a large personnel shortage and insufficient recruitment channels. Therefore, industry–unive...
The KAB study also found that, since the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been an increased incidence of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), with an estimated 207 million PPE gloves and masks littering roadways and waterways. All states have littering laws (with varying degrees of penalties and ...
That’s why it’s important that we try to livesustainably.Issues likeoverfishing,water scarcity(when there’s not enough clean water to go around),andclimate changeare all affected by our lifestyle choices. Thankfully, there’s lots we can do to help. ...
The COVID-19 pandemic had a huge effect on building construction. No comfort zone in dealing with the pandemic has been found for residential buildings in this era and the economy has been negatively affected in this regard [37]. Some activities and jobs cannot be virtualized during a ...
we’ll need to get rid of even more than that. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts that demand for transportation will keep growing through at least 2050—even after accounting for the fact that COVID-19 has limited travel and trade.It’s aviation, trucking, and...