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China's War on Air Pollution May Cause More Global Warming
2015-03-09 01:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: China's efforts to improve urban air quality are often viewed as a helper for fighting climate change, but a new joint China-U.S. study says otherwise. The study--carried out by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Tsinghua University in Beijing--was released last week. It shows that China's strategies for cleaning up air do not necessarily lead to carbon dioxide emissions reductions. Sometimes, according to the study, the efforts could actually increase emissions. The...
Why China Pollution Could Be Behind Our Cold Snowy Winters
2015-03-08 12:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: It's March. It's freezing. And there's half a foot of snow on the ground. When is this winter going to end? Many scientists think that climate change might be one cause of this year's snowpocalypse in Boston and bitter cold snaps in New York and Washington. But physicists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have been looking into another culprit: air pollution in China and India. "Over the past 30 years or so, man-made emission centers have shifted from traditional industrialized countries...
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Europe Warned Pollution Will Lead To Premature Deaths
2015-03-07 16:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Hundreds of thousands of Europeans will suffer a premature death in the next two decades as the result of governments' failure to act on air pollution, Europe's environmental watchdog has warned. In 2011 more than 400,000 are estimated to have died prematurely as a result of breathing toxic fumes. In 2011, the latest year for which figures have been reliably collated, more than 400,000 are estimated to have died prematurely as a result of breathing toxic fumes, despite recent improvements in...
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China pollution film disappears from local video sites
2015-03-07 12:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A popular documentary on China's struggles with pollution was inaccessible on the country's video sharing websites on Saturday, sparking concern from Chinese Internet users that it had been censored within a week of its launch. "Under the Dome", a film by journalist Chai Jing that explains air pollution in straightforward terms, spurred a national debate after its release last weekend and quickly garnered hundreds of millions of views on streaming video sites. Its removal will likely be seen...
China cannot relent on effort to tackle pollution: minister
2015-03-07 09:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: China cannot relent on efforts to tackle pollution, though a rapid turnaround should not be expected, the environment minister told a news conference on Saturday during China's annual parliamentary meeting. The country's environmental laws were still not as strong as its economic laws, and innovation was also weak, said the newly appointed minister, Chen Jining. China would also step up international cooperation on the environment this year, he said. China's myriad environmental problems...
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