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Beijing to raise threshold for issuing air pollution 'red alerts'
2016-02-21 17:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Beijing is to raise the thresholds for issuing its highest air pollution warnings, the state news agency Xinhua reported on Sunday, two months after acrid smog triggered the city's first ever "red alerts". In future, the highest alert will only be issued when the daily average air quality index (AQI) is forecast to exceed 500 for a day, 300 for two days in a row or 200 for four days, Xinhua reported, citing Beijing's environmental protection bureau. At present, a red alert is issued when the...
Carbon Pollution Fuels Superwarm January, Hottest 12 Months On Record
2016-02-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: Hot on the heels of the hottest year on record globally, NASA reported Saturday last month was the hottest January on record - by far. January 2016 blew out the previous record for hottest January (2007) by nearly 0.3°F. In January the Arctic averaged a staggering 13.5°F (7.5°C) above average, leading to a new record low of Arctic sea ice extent for the month. There has never been as hot a 12-month period in NASA`s database as the previous 12 months (February 2015January 2016). This is using...
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China to build ventilation 'corridors' in Beijing to help tackle air pollution
2016-02-21 06:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Authorities in Beijing are reportedly developing a network of ventilation corridors to help tackle the citys notorious air pollution. Construction in the zones, which will be created by connecting parks, rivers, lakes, highways and low building blocks, will be strictly controlled and obstacles to air flow will be removed over time, said the Xinhua state news agency, citing Wang Fei, deputy head of Beijings urban planning committee, as saying. There will be five large corridors that will...
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Air Pollution Linked to 5.5 Million Premature Deaths
2016-02-20 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Air pollution caused more than 5.5 million people to die prematurely in 2013, according to research presented on Friday, with more than half of those deaths in India and China and illnesses in those countries almost certain to rise. According to scientists from the U.S., Canada, China and India, who presented their findings at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Washington DC, conditions caused by air pollution killed 1.6 million people in China...
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Increase in pollution leads rise in strokes
2016-02-20 10:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Indo-Asian News Service: Rising levels of pollution have led to an increase in the number of strokes, revealed a study, reaffirming the growing evidence that climate change and overall air quality contributes to heart disease. The results showed that particles less than 2.5 mm in diameter (PM2.5) pose the greatest health risks due to their small size (1/30th diameter of a human hair and not visible to the human eye). They are created from combustion from cars, power plants, forest fires and others. Researchers also...
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