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Scientists just discovered dozens of new sources of air pollution
2016-06-01 15:08:49| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Scientists may have significantly underestimated a dangerous source of pollution in the atmosphere, new research suggests. A satellite study, published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience, has revealed nearly 40 previously unreported major sources of sulfur dioxide emissions -- a pollutant that can cause multiple harmful health and environmental impacts and even exacerbate global warming. Sulfur dioxide pollution can come from a variety of sources, both natural and industrial, including volcanoes,...
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China releases new action plan to tackle soil pollution
2016-05-31 11:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A farmer leans on his shovel as he takes a break from turning soil to plant crops with the chimneys from the huge state-owned lead smelter visible behind him in the town of Tianying, Anhui Province, in this file photo dated November 19, 2012. China aims to curb worsening soil pollution by 2020 and stabilize and improve soil quality by 2030, the cabinet said in an action plan published on Tuesday. The central government will set up a special fund to tackle soil pollution, as well as a separate...
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'Dirty Blizzard' sent 2010 Gulf oil spill pollution to seafloor
2016-05-31 02:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Scientists working in the Gulf of Mexico have found that contaminants from the massive 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill lingered in the subsurface water for months after oil on the surface had been swept up or dispersed. In a new study, they also detailed how remnants of the oil, black carbon from burning oil slicks and contaminants from drilling mud combined with microscopic algae and other marine debris to descend in a "dirty blizzard" to the seafloor. The work, published May 30 in the Proceedings...
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Tropical Plant Could Help End Water Pollution
2016-05-30 02:40:19| pollutiononline Home Page
The need for cheaper alternatives to remove heavy metal ions from water has led to a biological method utilizing the perennial Jatropha curcas plant. The treatment method known as “biosorption” appears to act commonly to other commercial adsorbents.
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Zambian villagers win right to have pollution case heard in Britain
2016-05-27 18:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Eighteen hundred Zambian villagers claiming to have had their water supplies polluted and their health affected by a giant mining companys subsidiary have won the right to have their case heard in the British courts rather than in Zambia. Vedanta, which is headquartered in London, had argued strongly in the high court that the villagers case against them and their subsidiary, KCM, should be heard in Zambia, where the alleged pollution took place near the town of Chingola and the giant Nchanga...
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