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Ozone pollution in India kills crops that could feed starving population
2014-09-10 16:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: In one year, India's ozone pollution damaged millions of tons of the country's major crops, causing losses of more than a billion dollars and destroying enough food to feed tens of millions of people living below the poverty line. These are findings of a new study that looked at the agricultural effects in 2005 of high concentrations of ground-level ozone, a plant-damaging pollutant formed by emissions from vehicles, cooking stoves and other sources. Able to acquire accurate crop production data...
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UK Feed Prices on the Way Up Again?
2014-09-10 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
UK - While compound feed prices are well below their peak in early to mid-2013, the latest averages are 86, 76, 101 and 93 per cent higher, respectively, for cattle/calf, pig, poultry and sheep rations than at the start of 2006.
Clough Amec JV wins FEED contract for Bowen gas project in Australia
2014-09-09 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology
A joint venture of Clough and Amec has secured a A$70m ($65m) front-end engineering design (FEED) contract for Arrow Energy's proposed Bowen gas project in central Queensland, Australia.
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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...
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