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creators_name: Vohra, Karn
creators_name: Marais, Eloise
creators_name: Bloss, William J
creators_name: Schwartz, Joel
creators_name: Mickley, Loretta J
creators_name: Van Damme, Martin
creators_name: Clarisse, Lieven
creators_name: Coheur, Pierre-F
title: Rapid rise in premature mortality due to anthropogenic air pollution in fast-growing tropical cities from 2005 to 2018
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abstract: Tropical cities are experiencing rapid growth but lack routine air pollution monitoring to develop prescient air quality policies. Here, we conduct targeted sampling of recent (2000s to 2010s) observations of air pollutants from space-based instruments over 46 fast-growing tropical cities. We quantify significant annual increases in nitrogen dioxide (NO2) (1 to 14%), ammonia (2 to 12%), and reactive volatile organic compounds (1 to 11%) in most cities, driven almost exclusively by emerging anthropogenic sources rather than traditional biomass burning. We estimate annual increases in urban population exposure to air pollutants of 1 to 18% for fine particles (PM2.5) and 2 to 23% for NO2 from 2005 to 2018 and attribute 180,000 (95% confidence interval: −230,000 to 590,000) additional premature deaths in 2018 (62% increase relative to 2005) to this increase in exposure. These cities are predicted to reach populations of up to 80 million people by 2100, so regulatory action targeting emerging anthropogenic sources is urgently needed.
date: 2022-04-08
date_type: published
publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abm4435
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
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elements_id: 1939422
doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abm4435
lyricists_name: Marais, Eloise
lyricists_id: EAMAR45
actors_name: Marais, Eloise
actors_id: EAMAR45
actors_role: owner
funding_acknowledgements: EP/R513465/3 [University College London]
full_text_status: public
publication: Science Advances
volume: 8
number: 14
article_number: eabm4435
citation:        Vohra, Karn;    Marais, Eloise;    Bloss, William J;    Schwartz, Joel;    Mickley, Loretta J;    Van Damme, Martin;    Clarisse, Lieven;           Vohra, Karn;  Marais, Eloise;  Bloss, William J;  Schwartz, Joel;  Mickley, Loretta J;  Van Damme, Martin;  Clarisse, Lieven;  Coheur, Pierre-F;   - view fewer <#>    (2022)    Rapid rise in premature mortality due to anthropogenic air pollution in fast-growing tropical cities from 2005 to 2018.                   Science Advances , 8  (14)    , Article eabm4435.  10.1126/sciadv.abm4435 <https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abm4435>.       Green open access   
 
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