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NASA Map Shows Air Pollution Across Asia and the Middle East
2013-01-21 15:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: New satellite data released by NASA provide dramatic visual evidence of the dangerous air quality reported from cities across Asia and the Middle East this month. Based on data collected from its satellite-based Ozone Monitoring Instrument, a map released by NASA scientists illustrates high levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) -- shown in orange -- over several major cities, including Istanbul, Tehran and New Delhi, during the first week of January. Satellite measurements of nitrogen dioxide concentrations...
China plans emergency measures to control Beijing air pollution
2013-01-20 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Beijing is to unveil unprecedented new rules governing how China's capital reacts to hazardous air pollution, the official Xinhua news agency said, as deteriorating air quality threatens to become a rallying point for wider political dissatisfaction. The rules will formalize previous ad-hoc measures, including shutting down factories, cutting back on burning coal and taking certain vehicle classes off the roads on days when pollution hits unacceptable levels. Air quality in Beijing, on many...
E.P.A. Extends Deadline for Navajo Plant's Pollution Controls
2013-01-18 22:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: In a bid to clean up one of the nation`s dirtiest coal-fired power plants without causing economic harm to the Navajo Nation that surrounds it, the Environmental Protection Agency indicated on Friday that it would give the plants owners five extra years, until 2023, to install expensive state-of-the art emissions reduction equipment. The agency expressed its willingness to extend the deadline by releasing a proposed rule. The Navajo Generating Station near Page, Ariz., not far from the Grand...
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Beijing Grapples with Record Air Pollution
2013-01-18 19:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: FLORA LICHTMAN, HOST: Last weekend, air pollution levels in Beijing hit a record high, cloaking China's capital in a thick smog and forcing residents inside. The air quality index measures ozone, carbon monoxide and particles, basically the stuff in the air, and the scale - the index scale that we use for particulate matter here in the U.S. goes from zero to 500. If this reading goes up past 300, that's considered a health hazard. Well, last Saturday, monitors in Beijing recorded an air quality...
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Industrial Pollution is Disaster in Waiting
2013-01-18 05:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Observer: Pollution is quickly becoming a devastating phenomenon and normally has diverse effects on people, the environment and all living creatures, both in the short and long run. I will look at some of the pollution catastrophes that continue to wreak havoc in several countries around the world. Much of the pollution mayhem is attributed to various man-made causes, including, but not limited to, issues ranging from system failures of extraction companies, accidents caused by natural factors and poor industrial...
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