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Air Pollution Kills 200,000 People in the US Every Year, Study Shows

2013-09-02 17:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Nature World: Air pollution is behind nearly 200,000 early deaths every year in the United States, according to a new study by researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. According to Steven Barrett, an assistant professor of aeronautics and astronautics and the study's lead author, those who die from air pollution-related causes do so on average 10 years earlier than they otherwise might have. Published in the journal Atmospheric Environment, the report utilizes emissions data from the Environmental...

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Fracking Wastewater Spill Kills Rare Fish in KY, Puts Entire Species at Risk

2013-08-30 17:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EcoWatch: Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently published a peer-reviewed journal article that discusses the results of the investigation into a 2007 fracking wastewater spill in Kentucky. Fracking wastewater that was being stored in open air pits (a practice that can lead to toxic spills) overflowed into Kentucky`s Acorn Fork Creek and left an orange-red substance, contaminating the creek with hydrochloric acid, dissolved minerals and metals, and...

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CHC Super Puma crash kills four North Sea rig workers

2013-08-28 01:00:00| Offshore Technology

Canada-based CHC's Super Puma AS332L2 helicopter crashed on Friday evening offshore of the Shetland Islands, in the North Sea, killing four oil rig workers.

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