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Tracking air pollution and CO₂ emissions in 13,189 urban areas worldwide using large geospatial datasets

Globally, urban areas experienced increases in ozone concentrations from 2005 to 2019, whereas fine particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide, and fossil-fuel carbon dioxide emissions showed non-significant variations, according to analysis of large geospatial air pollution datasets.

Soo-Yeon Kim
Gaige Hunter Kerr
Susan C. Anenberg
ResearchOpen Access07 May 2025
Communications Earth & Environment

Volume: 6, P: 1-14
Clean stoves benefit climate and health

Susan Anenberg
Correspondence17 Oct 2012
Nature

Volume: 490, P: 343
Impacts and mitigation of excess diesel-related NO_x emissions in 11 major vehicle markets

Across markets accounting for 80 per cent of global diesel vehicle sales, more than a third of diesel nitrogen oxide emissions are in excess of certification limits, causing many deaths.

Susan C. Anenberg
Joshua Miller
Chris Heyes
Research15 May 2017
Nature

Volume: 545, P: 467-471
Air quality, health and equity implications of electrifying heavy-duty vehicles

Heavy-duty vehicles are responsible for a substantial portion of road emissions from fossil-fuelled vehicles and cause harmful air pollution. Transitioning to electric heavy-duty vehicles would provide substantial health benefits, especially in Black and Hispanic/Latino urban neighbourhoods.

Sara F. Camilleri
Anastasia Montgomery
Daniel E. Horton
ResearchOpen Access05 Sept 2023
Nature Sustainability

Volume: 6, P: 1643-1653
Air pollution impacts from warehousing in the United States uncovered with satellite data

Using satellite observations, communities in the U.S. containing warehouses experience more truck traffic and increased health-harming pollution with a disproportionate number of racial and ethnic minorities living in these communities.

Gaige Hunter Kerr
Michelle Meyer
Susan C. Anenberg
ResearchOpen Access24 Jul 2024
Nature Communications

Volume: 15, P: 1-9
Co-benefits of mitigating global greenhouse gas emissions for future air quality and human health

Mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions often reduces co-emitted air pollutants, with advantages for human health. Avoided mortality from air pollution, a co-benefit of CO₂ abatement, is estimated under global climate change mitigation scenarios to be in the range of US$50–US$380 per tonne of CO₂. This exceeds the projected mitigation costs for 2030 and 2050, and is within the lower range of costs expected in 2100.

J. Jason West
Steven J. Smith
Jean-Francois Lamarque
Research22 Sept 2013
Nature Climate Change

Volume: 3, P: 885-889
Reversal of trends in global fine particulate matter air pollution

Global fine particulate matter air pollution recently pivots from increase to decrease as inferred from satellite observations, driven by unprecedented exposure reduction in China and slowed exposure growth in South Asia, the Middle East and Africa.

Chi Li
Aaron van Donkelaar
Randall V. Martin
ResearchOpen Access02 Sept 2023
Nature Communications

Volume: 14, P: 1-12
Particulate matter-attributable mortality and relationships with carbon dioxide in 250 urban areas worldwide

Susan C. Anenberg
Pattanun Achakulwisut
Daven K. Henze
ResearchOpen Access09 Aug 2019
Scientific Reports

Volume: 9, P: 1-6
Climate, health, agricultural and economic impacts of tighter vehicle-emission standards

Vehicle-emission standards for non-carbon-dioxide pollutants have recognized benefits for air quality. An interdisciplinary analysis now shows that adopting tight on-road emission standards for these pollutants would also mitigate short-term climate change and provide large benefits for human health and food security in a number of developing countries.

Drew Shindell
Greg Faluvegi
George Milly
Research29 Mar 2011
Nature Climate Change

Volume: 1, P: 59-66
Unified real-time environmental-epidemiological data for multiscale modeling of the COVID-19 pandemic

Hamada S. Badr
Benjamin F. Zaitchik
Lauren M. Gardner
ResearchOpen Access07 Jun 2023
Scientific Data

Volume: 10, P: 1-14
Clean air policies are key for successfully mitigating Arctic warming

Reduction in key air pollutants, especially particulate carbon, can help mitigate Arctic warming with associated benefits for global climate and human health, according to Earth system model simulations under future emissions scenarios.

Knut von Salzen
Cynthia H. Whaley
Barbara Winter
ResearchOpen Access02 Oct 2022
Communications Earth & Environment

Volume: 3, P: 1-11

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