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Cruise ship air quality worse than polluted cities

04-Jul-2017

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Each day a cruise ship emits as much particulate matter as a million cars.

Air on the deck downwind of the ship's funnels had 84,000 ultra-fine particulates per cubic centimetre.

Figure for London's Piccadilly Circus was only 38,400.

Short term exposure can cause increasing respiratory symptoms.

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Matthew Loxham

BBSRC Future Leader Fellow at University of Southampton.

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Respiratory Disease