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Co-Operation Agreement On Regional Air Pollution Control And Prevention Comes Into Effect And Macau Joins Regional Air Quality Monitoring Network
2014-09-08 09:49:17| pollutiononline Home Page
The Cooperation Agreement on Regional Air Pollution Control and Prevention among Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao (CA) came into effect recently (September 3)
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Indias ozone pollution kills enough crops to feed 94m a year
2014-09-07 14:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: In just one year, ozone pollution in India caused the loss of enough crops to feed 94 million people that are living below the poverty line, according to a new study. Studying data from 2005, scientists concluded that in that year alone, ozone pollution killed 6 million tonnes of wheat, soybean and rice crops enough to have fed around a third of the countrys poor. Although ozone is essential in the upper levels of Earths atmosphere, at ground level it can be harmful. Ground level ozone is not...
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Carbon standards will fight pollution, add jobs
2014-09-05 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Hampshire Business Review: When we burn fossil fuels, carbon pollution is released into Earth's closed atmosphere. As the concentration of heat-trapping gas builds up over decades, this insidious pollution accelerates climate change, triggers asthma attacks and respiratory disease and measurably worsens air quality. Although the United States emits the highest per capita carbon pollution in the world (40 percent coming from power plants), we are lulled into complacency because these harmful gases are tasteless, odorless...
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Air pollution regulations over last decade in Chinese city has halved health costs
2014-09-04 20:30:25| Green Car Congress
Researchers find mix of pollution and extreme temperatures can be deadly to some
2014-09-04 14:41:47| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Particulates, ozone and smog coupled with extreme temperatures form a more dangerous health threat than these problems would be individually, researchers have found. The combined threat is apparent in both hot and cold ends of the temperature spectrum. Scientists have long understood that air pollution is a serious health threat. The World Health Organization reported that in 2012, 1 in 8 deaths worldwide stemmed from air pollution. These concerns were the foundation of sweeping legislation...
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