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UK light pollution 'causing spring to come a week earlier'
2016-06-29 07:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Light pollution is causing spring to come at least a week earlier in the UK, a new study has revealed. The report, published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, found that budburst in trees occurs up to 7.5 days earlier in brighter areas, with later-budding species being more affected. The link between light pollution and changes in animal behaviour has been well documented, but this is the first time its impact specifically on plant phenology has been examined on a national...
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Visible Pollution Leaking from NY Nuclear Plant
2016-06-29 02:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Free Thought Project: US Coast Gaurd officials have cordoned off a portion of Lake Ontario this week, after aerial spotters found a visible "sheen" that is coming from a nuclear power plant in upstate New York. The Coast Guard Auxiliary aircrew first noticed the sheen on Sunday. Shortly after, a boat crew from the Oswego station tested the sheen and a "temporary safety zone" was put in place. The Free Thought Project spoke to the Coast Guard Sector Buffalo Command Center on Tuesday and confirmed that the zone was...
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These countries have deadliest air pollution. (Surprisingly, Georgia is No. 1.)
2016-06-28 09:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vox: Every year, air pollution kills about 6.5 million people worldwide -- linked to everything from lung cancer to heart disease to strokes. Its an honest-to-goodness public health crisis. So the International Energy Agency just put out a huge report on how pollution got so bad and what we might do about it. Heres a striking chart showing where air pollution is deadliest, with countries ranked by deaths per 100,000 people. This includes deaths linked to sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx),...
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IEA: 7% increase in total energy investment could cut premature deaths from air pollution in half by 2040
2016-06-27 17:56:06| Green Car Congress
Household fuels a major contributor to Beijing's infamous air pollution
2016-06-27 14:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: "You cannot have a clean outdoor environment if a large percentage of the population is burning dirty fuels in households several times a day," said Kirk Smith, a professor with the University of California, Berkeley's School of Public Health who co-led the study with Tong Zhu of Peking University and Denise Mauzerall of Princeton University. "The smoke may start indoors, but soon leaves the house and becomes a significant part of regional air pollution." Beijing's polluted air came to international...
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