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Air pollution most deadly environmental challenge, says former deputy mayor of London
2015-01-09 18:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Former deputy mayor of London Nicky Gavron has described air pollution in the capital as the most deadly environmental challenge and heavily criticised the current leadership for failing to take strong action. Gavron, who was deputy under Ken Livingstone, wrote in the Guardian, Of all the environmental challenge the capital currently faces, air pollution is by far the most deadly. The remarks are made after campaigners claimed that Londons Oxford Street had breached its nitrogen dioxide...
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Investigative Unit 2014: Deadly Impact, Guardrail Investigation
2014-12-31 13:16:06| Railroads - Topix.net
In a wreck in North Carolina, a guardrail pierced the car of N.C. man Jay Traylor, severing his legs. [As 2014 comes to a close, the ABC News Brian Ross Investigative Unit looks back on some major reports over the last year.] A popular highway guardrail system found on roads across the country was quietly modified years ago, without the knowledge of federal and state officials, in a way that critics say made the safety devices potentially deadly.
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01.08: Deadly Diversions Book Group
2014-12-18 20:04:23| Powells Books Events Calendar
This month our mystery group meets to discuss Assume Nothing by Gar Anthony Haywood. Join us!
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Deadly cholera outbreaks could increase with climate change
2014-12-18 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: Increasingly severe heat waves and more frequent and intense flooding due to climate change will spur the spread of cholera in vulnerable regions of the world, new research suggests. In an effort to better understand the environmental conditions that cause deadly cholera outbreaks and to be able to predict them in the future, researchers based at the University of Maryland compiled more than 40 years of cholera studies to compare weather and groundwater conditions to patterns of outbreaks. Based...
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Peru's melting glaciers a deadly threat as temperatures rise
2014-12-12 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: High in the Peruvian Andes, the glacier-fed lake Laguna 513 brims with meltwater atop a populated valley in a region prone to earthquakes. Scientists warn that if a giant chunk of ice from the Hualcan glacier breaks off it could trigger a tsunami-like wave in Laguna 513 and send a lethal torrent of water cascading down the valley. It has happened before in the Andean nation. In 1970, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake shook ice blocks into highland lakes and unleashed an avalanche that buried the town...
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