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Air pollution below EPA standards linked with higher death rate
2015-06-04 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: A new study by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health found that death rates among people over 65 are higher in zip codes with more fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) than in those with lower levels of PM2.5. It is the first study to examine the effect of soot particles in the air in the entire population of a region, including rural areas. The harmful effects from the particles were observed even in areas where concentrations were less than a third of the current standard set...
Pollution Update 6-4-15
2015-06-04 13:15:34| Waste Management - Topix.net
Back in June of 2014, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality hit Pacific Recycling with a $327,686 penalty for repeatedly discharging harmful levels of industrial pollutants to waters of the state and failing to install a treatment system in 2011 as it had promised to do.
Study finds frog decline could be related water warming, copper pollution
2015-06-01 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
KTVA: New evidence supports theories that water pollution from road runoff may increase mortality and abnormalities in frogs. Scientists at Alaska Pacific University, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the University of California, Davis, found that wood frog tadpoles were attacked by dragonfly larvae sooner and more often in warmer water with increased copper pollution - as opposed to cooler, copper-free water. Fish and Wildlife says in cool, clean water, tadpoles have a "fighting chance" to...
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What can Londoners expect from new Thames tunnel? Lethal pollution
2015-05-30 09:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: What could possibly be wrong with a big new car tunnel under the Thames linking deprived east and south London? It would relieve congestion, allow people to cross London more easily, reduce journey times, encourage development, jobs, prosperity, flexibility, and even provide an alternative route between the Isle of Dogs with Greenwich, wouldn't it? That's the premise of the mayor, Boris Johnson, and Transport for London (TfL) who, backed by construction and property companies, want to build a...
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893 Rajasthan fabric printers to close for pollution
2015-05-29 19:31:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Environmental authorities in the Indian state of Rajasthan are in the final stages of closing 893 fabric dyeing units in Sanganer, near the state capital Jaipur.
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