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AWWA To Congress: Controlling Nutrient Pollution Key To Preventing Cyanotoxins In Drinking Water
2015-02-06 05:21:24| pollutiononline Home Page
In testimony recently before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, American Water Works Association Water Utility Council Chair Aurel Arndt stressed that the solution to keeping drinking water safe from cyanotoxins begins with better managing nutrient pollution.
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Kitakyushu evolves from pollution black spot to recycling capital
2015-02-03 15:26:49| Steel - Topix.net
"I may be the only mayor who became famous by collecting waste and creating an industry," says former Mayor Koichi Sueyoshi, 80. He was speaking at a plant of Nishi-Nippon PET-Bottle Recycle Co. , where old plastic bottles were piled up high.
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Chinese Pollution Leaves Most Major Cities Failing on Air Quality
2015-02-03 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The air quality in 66 of China's 74 major cities, including the capital Beijing, failed to meet basic standards last year, China's Environment Ministry said, underlining the struggles the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitter has in reining in threats to public health and quality of life. The worst-performing cities were in the country's north adjacent to Beijing, with the Hebei province industrial center of Baoding just to the southwest coming in dead last, according to a report published on...
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Watch as Asian Air Pollution Chokes the World
2015-02-01 00:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Beijing and Delhi are two cities infamous for their thick and dangerous waves of tainted air - dirtied by smog, ash, and other aerosols. Unfortunately for the rest of the world, this pollution doesn't just sit still. NASA has recently released a stunning video that shows how Asian pollution is changing weather and climate around the globe. The video (below) was created using a powerful numerical model that included weather factors such as temperature, precipitation, and barometric pressure over...
Air pollution actually messes your genes
2015-01-29 19:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Breathing nasty urban pollution does more than clog up your lungs -- it actually messes with your genes. This disturbing news comes from a paper published last month, and could change the way we think about pollution. The study`s author, University of British Columbia researcher Chris Carlsten, put volunteers in a walled-in smog aquarium, exposed them to levels of air pollution similar to those found in the worlds most polluted cities, and then looked for changes at the level of the human genome....
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