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Air pollution and impacts on women's and children's health and climate change
2016-06-13 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Cooking and eating--caring for our families at home, moving onto work, school and markets, and then back home again. These are universal rituals that fill our days and the lives of people the world over. And yet there is an unrecognized health threat lurking in the shadows of our most basic routines: air pollution. It may appear as a faint haze on the urban horizon. Or it may be visible, as black and billowing smoke pouring out of the kitchen of a poor rural home. According to the latest World...
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Environmental, health impacts of US health-care system
2016-06-11 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: If the U.S. healthcare system were a country, it would rank 13th in the world for greenhouse gas emissions, according to new research. The study, published June 9 in PLOS ONE, quantified previously unreported environmental and public health impacts of the nation's healthcare sector. The U.S. healthcare system, the most expensive in the world, uses vast amounts of energy in the form of heating, electricity, and energy-intensive goods and services. It has been estimated that the healthcare sector...
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Scientists want erosion monitoring to deal with impacts of climate change
2016-06-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ABC Australia: There are renewed calls for national monitoring of Australian beaches in the wake of severe storms which washed away homes and other waterside properties along the east coast. The Water Research Laboratory at the University of New South Wales, led by Professor Ian Turner, has been monitoring Narrabeen and Collaroy beaches, two of the hardest hit in the weekend's storms, for 40 years. "We've seen quite large erosion, particularly in the southern ends of the beaches," Professor Turner told 7.30....
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Initiative to raise awareness on climate change impacts
2016-06-06 05:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: An initiative has been formed to help African and Asian societies understand climate change-related impacts such as extreme weather events and prepare for future ones. The initiative called Raising Risk Awareness will involve a team of scientists who will examine whether climate change has contributed to extreme weather events such as droughts, floods and heatwaves in East Africa and South Asia, and disseminate findings to a variety of audiences such as journalists, policymakers and the public....
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Value of eco crimes soars 26% with devastating impacts natural world
2016-06-04 03:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The value of the black market industry behind crimes such as ivory smuggling, illegal logging and toxic waste dumping has jumped by 26% since 2014 to between $91bn (62bn) and $258bn, according to an assessment by the UN and Interpol. Environmental crime is now the worlds fourth largest illicit enterprise after drug smuggling, counterfeiting and human trafficking and has outstripped the illegal trade in small arms. The impact on the natural world has been devastating in some cases. More than...
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