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China pollution may hold silver lining for California
2013-04-11 15:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment Health: As Gov. Jerry Brown tours some of China's economic hubs this week, he is breathing the kind of heavy, soiled air that blanketed Los Angeles decades ago. The soot and smog that are byproducts of this country's industrial progress are choking its people and threatening its economy. Chinese leaders are talking openly about the need to clean up the air, and to learn how from California. So Brown and a large delegation of business and political leaders have come to lend a hand, as well as to leverage...
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Study: More pollution means bumpier flights for transatlantic travellers
2013-04-11 09:23:27| Airlines - Topix.net
In this Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2000 file photo, a meteorologist uses the Northwest Airlines' Turbulence Plot System software, to track areas of turbulent air over the Pacific at the System Operations Center in Minneapolis.
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UCLA researchers find potential link between traffic pollution and some rare childhood cancers
2013-04-10 11:30:14| Green Car Congress
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Air pollution scourge underestimated, green energy can help: U.N.
2013-04-10 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Air pollution is an underestimated scourge that kills far more people than AIDS and malaria and a shift to cleaner energy could easily halve the toll by 2030, U.N. officials said on Tuesday. Investments in solar, wind or hydropower would benefit both human health and a drive by almost 200 nations to slow climate change, blamed mainly on a build-up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere from use of fossil fuels, they said. "Air pollution is causing more deaths than HIV or malaria combined," Kandeh...
Amid China air, water pollution, soil survey reveals century-old heavy metals
2013-04-10 09:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Soil samples across China have revealed remnants of toxic heavy metals dating back at least a century and traces of a pesticide banned in the 1980s, an environmental official said on Wednesday, revealing the extent of the country's pollution problems. Street-level anger over air pollution that blanketed many northern cities this winter spilled over into online appeals for Beijing to clean water supplies, especially after rotting corpses of thousands of pigs were found last month in a river that...
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