Chemical-free dust from Southern California’s oceans is likely to harm the lungs of people around the body digging children, children say, new Peer-Review Review from the University of California, Irvine, showed.
A blind WANTED PEED-Review Study From the University of California, Riverside, contaminated SOUD dust was also found in SEA, which may have caused the pulmonary issues reported around the lake.
The two new papers are part of a series of studies that facade THE in nature and Public Health Risks of dust from the drying Salton Sea, which sits about 60 miles (95km) southeast of Metropolitan Los Angeles. The dust is gone found to travel more than 100 miles (160km), even if the prevailing wind blows south-east.
“The drying up of the Salton Sea is not only an environmental crisis but also a public health crisis,” UC Irvine Study Co-author Jill Johnston said in a statement. “Our study provides concrete evidence that children in the surrounding communities face their lungs as a result of increased dust.”
Similar issues have been reported around the Great Salt Lake in Utah, and other saline lakes.
New research in the SEA SALTON environment reveals a unique risk to public health from the poorly regulated pesticide use of cropland, climent cropping, water bodies, advocates say.
The more than 340-SQ-Mile Lake gives up as its main source, the Colorado River, flows into an ongoing drought and over-reliance on drinking or agricultural water. Many patches of dry Salton sea beds are now exposed, and those are polluted from pesticide chemicals and nutrients from fertilizers. The bed also teems with naturally occurring, dangerous heavy metals, such as arsenic.
The health risk is greatest for the mostly low-lying and Latino residents who live near the lake. The UC Irvine study examined the lung capacity of 500 10-year-old children living in the region.
Researchers measure lung size and strength by measuring how much a person can inhale, as well as how fast they exhale. The study used state air quality data to estimate exposures that would result from the lake.
The tests show a “clear association” between the poorest recent function and the distance from which people live from the lake. The authors wrote that those living near the lake exhibited wheezing and other respiratory conditions. They likened the effects to “dust Bowl Pneumonia” in the 1930s, when widespread dust exposure led to severe and chronic respiratory disease.
The UC Riverside study looked at the effect of SEA SALTON SEA dust on the lungs of mice, and, using new technology, measured changes in microbiome changes. The exposure seems to trigger a non-allergic asthma, which cannot be managed with traditional inhalers. The symptoms are similar to those reported by people living around the lake, said Emma Aronson, a co-author at UC Riverside.
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The research marks the first time that contaminants have been found to alter the microbiome — or bacteria that live in the lungs — little understood by health researchers. The findings may shed light on how air pollution is more damaging to the pulmonary system, Aronon said.
“I’m still trying to wrap my head around it because there are so many types of environmental exposures around the world, but we don’t understand the impact on our microbiome yet, so what we can say right now is why it’s so scary right now it’s so alarming,” Aronson said.
Researchers suspect they have identified the source of the issue. Salton’s Salt dust contains high levels of a piece of bacterial membrane that is a highly potent endotoxin. Marine nutrients tend to cause a growth of bacteria that leave the membranes, said Aronon.
A taskforce that advises the policies of the Difficult issues of the SEA SALTON SIVE advocates for the installation of wetlands that come from water, which will significantly reduce the problem, added Aronon. Experts also advise people in the vicinity of the Lake to wear masks as much as possible, and for those who live in the air filter systems.