Air Pollution 2000-2012

Nice Overview Scientific American June 2014

• WHO concluded once-and-for-all that diesel exhausts do in fact cause cancer;

• MIT’s Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment found that about 200,000 Americans die a premature death each year due to air pollution, with road transport being the most significant with 53,000 premature deaths;

• A recent report from the OECD found that outdoor air pollution kills more than 3.5 million people per year, worldwide, and about half of that is attributable to road transport.

Another nice overview The Atlantic June 2014

Interactive Map

Snapshots from interactive map for 2012

See also Vitamin D Life

• Air Pollution reduces Vitamin D production - many studies

• Search Vitamin D Life for "air pollution" 169 items as of June 2014

• Breathing category listing

• Higher air pollution associated with 7 ng lower vitamin D levels – Aug 2013

• Air pollution while pregnant reduced vitamin D level in infant – Aug 2012

• Air pollution reduces UV and thus vitamin D - Aug 2010

• Fewer pre-term births after pollution reduction (vitamin D not mentioned) April 2014

• 4X more suburban UV than urban UV – Nov 2010