The evolution of atmospheric particulate matter in an urban landscape since the Industrial Revolution
dc.contributor.author | Power, AL | |
dc.contributor.author | Tennant, RK | |
dc.contributor.author | Stewart, AG | |
dc.contributor.author | Gosden, C | |
dc.contributor.author | Worsley, AT | |
dc.contributor.author | Jones, R | |
dc.contributor.author | Love, J | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-09-18T14:31:47Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-06-02 | |
dc.date.updated | 2023-09-18T13:56:42Z | |
dc.description.abstract | Atmospheric particulate matter (PM) causes 3.7 million annual deaths worldwide and potentially damages every organ in the body. The cancer-causing potential of fine particulates (PM2.5) highlights the inextricable link between air quality and human health. With over half of the world's population living in cities, PM2.5 emissions are a major concern, however, our understanding of exposure to urban PM is restricted to relatively recent (post-1990) air quality monitoring programmes. To investigate how the composition and toxicity of PM has varied within an urban region, over timescales encompassing changing patterns of industrialisation and urbanisation, we reconstructed air pollution records spanning 200 years from the sediments of urban ponds in Merseyside (NW England), a heartland of urbanisation since the Industrial Revolution. These archives of urban environmental change across the region demonstrate a key shift in PM emissions from coarse carbonaceous 'soot' that peaked during the mid-twentieth century, to finer combustion-derived PM2.5 post-1980, mirroring changes in urban infrastructure. The evolution of urban pollution to a recent enhanced PM2.5 signal has important implications for understanding lifetime pollution exposures for urban populations over generational timescales. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Halton Primary Care Trust | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Edge Hill University | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | University of Exeter | en_GB |
dc.format.extent | 8964- | |
dc.format.medium | Electronic | |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 13, article 8964 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-35679-3 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | CHCRD001 SE02 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | RDWOR04 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | RDWOR05 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | RDWOR06 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | RDWOR209 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/134025 | |
dc.identifier | ORCID: 0000-0003-3033-1858 (Tennant, Richard K) | |
dc.identifier | ScopusID: 55450398500 (Tennant, Richard K) | |
dc.identifier | ORCID: 0000-0003-0340-7431 (Love, John) | |
dc.identifier | ScopusID: 7202207902 (Love, John) | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Nature Research | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37268751 | en_GB |
dc.rights | © The Author(s) 2023. Open Access. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. | en_GB |
dc.title | The evolution of atmospheric particulate matter in an urban landscape since the Industrial Revolution | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2023-09-18T14:31:47Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2045-2322 | |
exeter.article-number | 8964 | |
exeter.place-of-publication | England | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from Nature Research via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.description | Data availability: Te datasets used and/or analysed during the current study available from the corresponding author on reason able request | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 2045-2322 | |
dc.identifier.journal | Scientific Reports | en_GB |
dc.relation.ispartof | Sci Rep, 13(1) | |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2023-05-22 | |
dc.rights.license | CC BY | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2023-06-02 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2023-09-18T14:28:48Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2023-09-18T14:31:48Z | |
refterms.panel | A | en_GB |
refterms.dateFirstOnline | 2023-06-02 |
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