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13 GM Traffic Deaths Are Tied To A 57-Cent Part
2014-04-02 03:36:19| Automakers - Topix.net
Pictures of people killed in GM cars with defected key switches, were put of the ledge of the hearing room as General Motors Company CEO Mary Barra answers questions during a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, on April 1, 2014 in Washington, DC.
Air pollution causes 7 million deaths a year, report finds
2014-03-29 15:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: What do you think is the worlds largest cause of preventable deaths? Smoking? Poor diet? Blood pressure? It is air pollution, which led to a staggering 7 million deaths in 2012, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). Findings revealed it was the cause of one in eight global deaths, more than doubling previous estimates and confirming pollution as the worlds biggest environmental health risk. Exposure to fumes both indoors and outside leads to strokes, heart disease, cancer and...
In U.S., Mudslides Common, But Usually Few Deaths
2014-03-28 22:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Washington state, with its many steep slopes, streams and rivers and some of the heaviest annual rainfall in the country, is a mudslide waiting to happen. Add in soil erosion from logging, as was reportedly the case near the community of Oso before last week's tragedy, and the probability of such an event increases. And, as we now know, this was just the latest in a string of mudslides in the area over the years as well as (apparently unheeded) official warnings about the potential for such a...
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Mudslide deaths expected to soar as some question disaster response
2014-03-28 02:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Washington state officials said the confirmed death toll from a huge mudslide in the U.S. Pacific Northwest was likely to rise sharply from 25 on Friday as residents accused local authorities of a slow early response to the disaster that had cost lives. A rain-soaked hillside collapsed without warning on Saturday, unleashing a deluge of mud on dozens of homes in a river valley near the rural town of Oso, in Snohomish County, some 55 miles northeast of Seattle. Authorities fear that some of the...
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WHO links 7 million premature deaths annually to air pollution; 12.5% of total global deaths
2014-03-25 11:30:27| Green Car Congress
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