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Air pollution and impaired lung function prove independent risk factors for cognitive decline
2015-05-19 01:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Studies have shown that both air pollution and impaired lung function can cause cognitive deficits, but it was unclear whether air pollution diminishes cognition by reducing breathing ability first or whether air pollution represents an independent risk factor for cognitive deficit. Now a new study conducted by German and Swiss researchers has answered that question: air pollution directly affects cognition and is not mediated by lung function. The researchers, who analyzed data from a study of...
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Decade-long study wins Heinz Award after findings include link between air pollution, obesity
2015-05-18 09:48:03| Food - Topix.net
That was just one of the more surprising findings of a decade-long public health study by Frederica Perera, an environmental health researcher at Columbia University and one of five winners of this year's Heinz Awards. Dr. Perera's research tracked the pre- and post-natal health of 720 mother-child pairs in New York City.
Nano-Policing Pollution
2015-05-18 05:02:19| pollutiononline Home Page
Pollutants emitted by factories and car exhausts affect humans who breathe in these harmful gases and also aggravate climate change up in the atmosphere
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Arctic pollution rules 'not enough'
2015-05-16 02:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: New guidelines have been passed to prevent pollution from ships in polar waters. The Polar Code, passed at a meeting in London of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), ban ships from releasing oil, sewage, chemicals and waste into the sea. The measures are set to come into force in 2017. But environmentalists say the regulations do not go far enough. WWF said a strong, legally binding Polar Code was particularly urgent in the Arctic, where new sea routes are expected to open up in coming...
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Canada: Ontario sets new greenhouse gas pollution reduction target
2015-05-15 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: Canada has committed to a 30 per cent reduction of 2005 levels by 2030, ahead of an international climate change conference later this year. One of the ways the government plans to meet this goal is counting on emissions reductions by the provinces, including a 37 per cent reduction below 1990 levels recently announced by Ontario. Ontario announced a new greenhouse gas target on Thursday. The province already has a goal to reduce greenhouse gas pollution by 15 per cent below 1990 levels by...
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