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Nitrate Pollution: Are Farmers At Fault?
2014-11-06 12:36:49| Waste Management - Topix.net
State officials in Idaho stepped out recently to defend farmers from claims that they are a significant source of nitrate pollution in groundwater. "While some are quick to blame agriculture, it's not the only source of nitrates in groundwater, said Irene Nautch, Idaho State Department of Environmental Quality drinking water protection coordinator in Twin Falls," MagicValley.com reported.
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The worst climate pollution is carbon dioxide
2014-11-05 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Soot from car exhaust and cookstoves, sulfates from coal-fired power plants, methane leaked during oil and gas production, and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) from air conditioning are all greenhouse gases that trap heat within the Earth's atmosphere for a short while before decaying into less virulent chemicals. Cutting emissions of such "short-lived climate pollutants," or SLCPs, will not have much impact on long-term climate change, finds a new study published yesterday in the Proceedings of the...
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India air pollution 'cutting crop yields by almost half'
2014-11-03 21:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Air pollution in India has become so severe that yields of crops are being cut by almost half, scientists have found. Researchers analysed yields for wheat and rice alongside pollution data, and concluded significant decreases in yield could be attributed to two air pollutants, black carbon and ground level ozone. The finding has implications for global food security as India is a major rice exporter. Black carbon is mostly caused by rural cookstoves, and ozone forms as a result of motor vehicle...
UN scientific group: Eliminate greenhouse gas pollution by 2100
2014-11-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Politico: Global greenhouse gas emissions will need to drop to zero by the end of the century if governments hope to prevent massive and irreversible changes to the Earth's climate, a United Nations' scientific group warned on Sunday. The report from the Intergovermental Panel on Climate Change is latest and most dire warning yet that human activities, primarily the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and natural gas, are changing the Earth's climate far more quickly than would have occurred naturally....
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Fracking pollution just went airborne
2014-11-01 01:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: From contaminated groundwater to polytechnic displays at the kitchen faucet, most of the major concerns around fracking have centered around how fracking fluids and methane could be polluting our water supply. But we`ve started to suspect that fracking impacts the air, too, and a new study published this week in the journal of Environmental Health adds one more piece of evidence to the pile. David Carpenter, director of the Institute for Health and the Environment at University at Albany, State...
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