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Wildflowers at risk from 'safe' levels of pollution
2013-02-11 10:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecologist: Over the last 100 years the global population has increased four-fold to seven billion people and may reach nine billion by 2075. How to produce enough food to feed all these people is one of the biggest global challenges. Throughout the twentieth and early twenty-first century, food production has been dramatically increased by improving agricultural yields, particularly by applying nitrogen fertilisers. In 1908, the German chemist Fritz Haber invented a method for producing ammonia fertilizer...
China: Managing mega-cities' pollution levels
2013-02-10 23:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The pollution monitor on the roof of the US Embassy in Beijing was catapulted into the international spotlight as air pollution deteriorated in the Chinese capital in mid-January. The instrument broadcasts a Twitter bulletin each hour providing a record of the airborne particle pollution. This peaked at 25 times the World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines on the 13th implying an increased daily death rate of around 50%. This was a classic example of wintertime smog with cold air settling over...
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Pollution Update 2-7-13
2013-02-07 11:55:03| Waste Management - Topix.net
Oregon Department of Environmental Quality sent Margaret Hedrick a warning letter Jan.
Air Pollution Delivers Smaller Babies
2013-02-06 22:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: Pregnant women who have been exposed to higher levels of some types of air pollution are slightly more likely to give birth to underweight babies, a large international study has found. The results are published online today in Environmental Health Perspectives. Low birth weight defined as a newborn baby weighing less than 2.5 kilograms increases the risk of infant mortality and childhood diseases, and has been associated with developmental and health problems later in life, including diabetes...
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EPA: Decline in carbon pollution from power plants
2013-02-06 11:22:05| Energy - Topix.net
In this July 10, 2007, file photo, the coal-fired Plant Scherer in operation at Juliette, Ga.
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