Bike To Work Day attracts public and companies as awareness of cycling benefits grows It’s no coincidence São Paulo was the city in which Zoom, described as “Uber for helicopters”, made its worldwide debut late last year. The biggest city in South America (population: 21.2 million) is infamous for its traffic; a recent study found that Paulistanos spent 86 hours on average in 2017 stuck in traffic (or 22 per cent of total drive time), putting it in the top […]
Brussels/Sofia, 31 May 2018 – A coalition of nine doctor and health organisations has today joined the global Unmask My City initiative, calling for greater urgency in achieving clean air in Sofia. The Bulgarian capital is one of the most polluted cities in the whole European Union (EU). Air quality is not only poor in Bulgaria’s capital – air pollution leads to significant health impacts all over the country. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that Bulgaria has the third […]
by Jeni Miller The evidence about the health impacts of air pollution just keeps growing. New studies increasingly show that exposure to even low levels of air pollution – if sustained over the long term – are associated with cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease and cancer, and may have a role in diabetes and neurological disease, and that early life exposures can have lifelong impacts. Today is World Asthma Day. We’ve long known that bad air days can be a misery […]
A recent study by pathologist Paulo Saldiva revealed that “the city of São Paulo is obese and suffers from chronic bronchitis”
Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina; February 26, 2018 – Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) is calling city authorities to clean the air in Bosnia and Herzegovina . Doctors, allied healthcare professionals, and public health practitioners in Tuzla are officially launching Unmask My City, to rally their peers and push for action on air pollution in their region. The Tuzla thermal coal plant in Bosnia is one of the ten largest polluters in Europe, emitting 51,644 tons of sulphur dioxide (SO2) per […]