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It&apos;s not a big shock that more scientists have linked air pollution to health problems. Past research shows that air pollution is linked to asthma, autism, bodily inflammation, poor academic success, brain, respiratory, and digestive problems in early life, low IQ, developmental delays, slower lung growth and other serious issues. In the case of this study, researchers compared the brains of children and young adults living in urban, higher pollution areas with the brains of those living in less polluted, rural areas. While studying the brains, researchers found that the gene expression analysis showed there were major differences in how the genes worked between rural and urban dwellers. In fact, more than 100 genes were changed in the brains of individuals who lived in urban areas. Brains from individuals living in urban areas showed signs of amyloid-B plaques and 40% expressed pretangle material. To compare, scientists found no sign of either condition in the brains of individuals living in rural areas. Amyloid-B plaques and pretangle materials are pretty science-minded terms, but to sum up, the plaques are protein deposits commonly found in the brains of people experiencing Alzheimer&apos;s. Pretangle material is also often associated with Alzheimer&apos;s.]]></description>     <dc:date>2012-01-31T12:00:00-05:00</dc:date>   </item>   <item rdf:about="http://www.p2ric.org/whats-happening/NewsItem.cfm?ID=14571">      <title>Asthma Rate and Costs from Traffic Pollution Higher</title>      <link>http://www.p2ric.org/whats-happening/NewsItem.cfm?ID=14571</link>      <description><![CDATA[Source: Environmental Protection, 1/26/12.A research team led by University of Massachusetts Amherst resource economist Sylvia Brandt, with colleagues in California and Switzerland, have revised the cost burden sharply upward for childhood asthma and for the first time include the number of cases attributable to air pollution, in a study released in the online version of the European Respiratory Journal. The total cost of asthma due to pollution is much higher than past traditional risk assessments have indicated and there is growing evidence that exposure to traffic-related air pollution is a cause of asthma and a trigger for attacks, so it should be included, say the authors. They conducted the study in Long Beach and Riverside, Calif., communities with high regional air pollution levels and large roads near residential neighborhoods. Total additional asthma-specific costs there due to traffic-related pollution is about $18 million per year, almost half of which is due to new asthma cases caused by pollution, they report.]]></description>     <dc:date>2012-01-31T12:00:00-05:00</dc:date>   </item>   <item rdf:about="http://www.p2ric.org/whats-happening/NewsItem.cfm?ID=14572">      <title>NASA: Green Aircrafts in the Works</title>      <link>http://www.p2ric.org/whats-happening/NewsItem.cfm?ID=14572</link>      <description><![CDATA[Source: Environmental Protection, 1/30/12.Leaner, greener flying machines for the year 2025 are on the drawing boards of three industry teams under contract to the NASA Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate&apos;s Environmentally Responsible Aviation Project. Teams from The Boeing Company in Huntington Beach, Calif., Lockheed Martin in Palmdale, Calif., and Northrop Grumman in El Segundo, Calif., have spent the last year studying how to meet NASA goals to develop technology that would allow future aircraft to burn 50 percent less fuel than aircraft that entered service in 1998 (the baseline for the study), with 75 percent fewer harmful emissions; and to shrink the size of geographic areas affected by objectionable airport noise by 83 percent.]]></description>     <dc:date>2012-01-31T12:00:00-05:00</dc:date>   </item></rdf:RDF>
