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Indias ozone pollution kills enough crops to feed 94m a year
2014-09-07 14:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: In just one year, ozone pollution in India caused the loss of enough crops to feed 94 million people that are living below the poverty line, according to a new study. Studying data from 2005, scientists concluded that in that year alone, ozone pollution killed 6 million tonnes of wheat, soybean and rice crops enough to have fed around a third of the countrys poor. Although ozone is essential in the upper levels of Earths atmosphere, at ground level it can be harmful. Ground level ozone is not...
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Smog in India Damaged Enough Crops to Feed 94 Million, Study Says
2014-09-06 00:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Ground-level ozone, the main component of smog, damaged 6.7 million tons of Indian crops worth an estimated $1.3 billion in a single year, according to a new study published in Geophysical Research Letters. That's enough wheat, rice and other staple crops to feed 94 million people roughly one-third of the country's impoverished population. Arising from a combination of vehicle emissions, cooking stoves, and industrial sources, plant-damaging ozone has left many of India's fast-developing cities...
Study: surface ozone in India in 2005 damaged 6M tonnes of crops, enough to feed 94M people in poverty
2014-09-04 21:30:53| Green Car Congress
Study: 35M in crops lost to early summer flooding
2014-09-04 01:44:08| Agriculture - Topix.net
CROSS COUNTY, AR - The flooding that began in late June will lead to millions of dollars in lost crop value for Arkansas farmers, according to a study by the University of Arkansas.
Record yields predicted for 2014 crops
2014-09-03 08:09:18| Chemicals - Topix.net
A GRAIN TRUCK moves to the scale to be weighed at the Ritchie Grain Elevator in Ritchey last week, as the facility prepares for a record harvest.
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