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Air pollution named as leading cause in strokes
2016-06-10 20:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Each year, around 15 million people globally suffer from strokes and it is the fifth leading cause of death in the U.S. Scientists have long known that behavioral factors like diet, smoking, and exercise all contribute to those statistics, but now, a new study published in the journal Lancet Neurology names another leading contributor: air pollution. The study, funded by public health groups in the U.S. and New Zealand, found that environmental and household air pollution was associated with a...
EEA: Air pollution in 10 EU countries still above legal limits; road transport and agriculture
2016-06-10 17:55:57| Green Car Congress
Ten EU nations still breaching pollution limits: EEA
2016-06-10 12:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Air pollution from sources such as transport and agriculture is still above legal limits in 10 European Union member states, data from the European Environment Agency (EEA) showed on Friday. Since 2010, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland and Luxembourg have persistently breached their emissions ceilings for nitrogen oxides; Denmark, Germany, Ireland and Luxembourg have exceeded their limits for non-methane volatile organic compounds; and Austria, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands and Spain...
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Irving Oil dust pollution exceeded limits in Canadian city
2016-06-10 07:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Irving Oils refinery in the Canadian province of New Brunswick spewed an excessive amount of ash-like catalyst into the surrounding city of Saint John at least a dozen times since 2010 as regulators launched and later abandoned a study of its health impacts, according to filings reviewed by Reuters. The previously unreported documents from Irving and provincial regulators, obtained by Reuters under the provinces Right to Information Act, raise fresh questions over the company's environmental...
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India Not Happy With US Study On Pollution That Claims People Lose Six Years Of Their Lives
2016-06-10 06:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
India Times: Well India has angrily rejected the study on pollution published in the Geophysical Research Letters Journal of the American Geophysical Union. "We reject the claims made in the so-called research article that each Indian loses six years of his/her life because of pollution. The Ministry of Earth Sciences does not agree with the study and completely rejects it,' Minister of State of Environment, Forests and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar said in a statement here. The minister said the study...
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