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Korea's Air Is Dirty, But It's Not All Close-Neighbor China's Fault
2016-06-03 10:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Minhae Kim didn't check air pollution levels before bringing her one-year-old to Seoul's Yongsan Family Park. Perhaps she should have. On this day - and on most days this spring - the measures of the most dangerous kind of pollution in Seoul exceed the World Health Organization's recommended limit. And Korea ranks near the very bottom for air quality in Yale University's latest 180-country Environmental Performance Index. "People say the [poor] air quality here these days is because of China,"...
'Dirty Blizzard' sent 2010 Gulf oil spill pollution to seafloor
2016-05-31 02:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Scientists working in the Gulf of Mexico have found that contaminants from the massive 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill lingered in the subsurface water for months after oil on the surface had been swept up or dispersed. In a new study, they also detailed how remnants of the oil, black carbon from burning oil slicks and contaminants from drilling mud combined with microscopic algae and other marine debris to descend in a "dirty blizzard" to the seafloor. The work, published May 30 in the Proceedings...
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German Reserve for Dirty Coal Plants Seen Hurting Carbon Demand
2016-05-30 09:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Germanys plan to place lignite-burning power plants into a reserve from later this year may cut demand in Europes carbon market, according to a former government official. The 1.6 billion-euro ($1.8 billion) coal reserve may reduce demand for carbon allowances because it would lower total emissions and trim the need for utilities buying permits in advance, Franzjosef Schafhausen, a former director-general for climate policy, European and international policy at the nations environment ministry,...
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Dirty and dangerous
2016-04-05 01:06:15| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Indias sewer workers putting their lives at risk
Acid attack trial halted - as suspect moaned his clothes were dirty
2016-04-02 06:24:33| Apparel - Topix.net
Billy Midmore, 22, failed to appear for the second day of his trial because he had been wearing the same clothes for a week. Midmore is currently on trial after mum-of-six Carla Whitlock was left "in agony" when she had a highly concentrated form of drain cleaner sprayed in her face last September outside a bar in Southampton, Hants.
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