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How smoke from wildfires affects the health of those who live nearby

2016-07-07 00:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

LA Weekly: This year's wildfire season is off to a dramatic and early start, and so is the worry about what that smoke is doing to our lungs. Big wildfires started burning in Southern California in early June, and since then, air-quality agencies have been warning residents that pollution from those Southern California fires could make breathing a risky pastime. Residents of cities as far away as Las Vegas are being advised to limit their exposure to the smoke from Southern California fires. Smoke from wildfires...

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Toxins From Fracking Found In Nearby Residents

2016-07-06 06:30:00| Chemical Processing

People working at or living near fracking sites are found to have higher concentrations of toxic chemicals in their bodies.

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Australian MP sets river on fire, blames nearby fracking

2016-04-24 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

CBC: An Australian MP is blaming seeping methane from a nearby fracking site for making it possible for him to set Queensland's Condamine River on fire. Jeremy Buckingham a Greens party MP for New South Wales posted a video of the incident to his Facebook page on Friday. As of Saturday afternoon, it had been shared more than 50,000 times. "Unbelievable! A river on fire. Don't let it burn the boat," he says in the video. "The most incredible thing I've seen. A tragedy in the Murray-Darling Basin."...

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Toxic Exide Plant May Have Poisoned Children Living Nearby

2016-04-10 06:03:05| Real Estate - Topix.net

Ending the week on a particularly grim note, the State Department of Public Health released a new analysis Friday that shows that children living within a mile of the site of the former Exide battery recycling plant in Vernon have significantly higher amounts of lead in their blood than those living farther away. The study found that 3.58 percent of these children had elevated lead levels in their system, as opposed to 2.41 percent living within 4.5 miles of the facility and 1.95 percent in all of Los Angeles County, as reported by the LA Times .

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