A new study in Nature Communications quantifies global health benefits and finds cleaner shipping fuels will result in a 3.6% reduction of childhood asthma globally.
The study was led by University of Delaware’s James Corbett, and included an international team of researchers from the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in New York and Energy and Environmental Research Associates.
The team studied the impacts of sulfur emitted by ships using current marine fuels, which produce air pollution particles that are small enough to be breathed deeply into the lungs and are considered harmful to human health.
