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DuPont spinoff spurs anxiety over pollution cleanups
2015-07-04 11:18:58| Chemicals - Topix.net
DuPont spinoff spurs anxiety over pollution cleanups The spinoff, Chemours, will take with it liability for nationwide pollution cleanup bills. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/1IAeqON WILMINGTON, Del.
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World must cut pollution to save marine life, study warns
2015-07-03 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Press: If left unchecked, global warming will cause irreversible damage to marine life in the world's oceans, forcing fish to search for cooler waters and destroying valuable coral reefs, an international study said Thursday. Keeping global average temperatures within two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures is the only way to stave off the worst effects of climate change on the Earth's oceans, which provide 90 percent of the planet's habitable space, said the study in the journal Science....
Feds: fireworks boost air pollution on the Fourth
2015-07-03 01:36:16| Waste Management - Topix.net
Oh, say can you see, or smell, the smoke and haze from fireworks on the Fourth of July? Absolutely, say people we talked to. "It bothers me with my kids," said Ashley Magis of Boise.
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Heathrow expansion risks deepening London's air pollution crisis
2015-07-01 16:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The UK governments Airports Commission has recommended that a new runway at Heathrow should go ahead, but only with a legally binding commitment to control air and noise pollution. If the government decides to act on Howard Davies recommendation (and doing so would be a political minefield) Londoners will be forgiven for treating any air quality guarantees with a heavy pinch of salt. Even before Wednesday mornings announcement, Londons air quality was so bad that the government did not...
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Can pollution help trees fight infection?
2015-06-30 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Trees that can tolerate soil pollution are also better at defending themselves against pests and pathogens. "It looks like the very act of tolerating chemical pollution may give trees an advantage from biological invasion," says Dr Frederic E. Pitre of the University of Montreal and one of the researchers behind the discovery. Unexpectedly, whilst studying the presence of genetic information (RNA) from fungi and bacteria in the trees, the researchers found evidence of a very large amount of RNA...
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