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Pollution over Asian skies driven by Western demand for goods: study
2016-09-10 01:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CTV: A new study has found that the release of climate-warming emissions clogging skies in East Asia is being driven by consumption of manufactured goods in Western Europe, North America and Oceania. Researchers looked at a number of aerosols (solid and liquid particles suspended in air) created through manufacturing and energy production, such as black carbon, which absorb solar radiation and warm the atmosphere -- an effect known as "radiative forcing. The aerosols only stick in the air for days...
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Pakistan: Stormy skies ahead: Floods show Chitral is more vulnerable than ever
2016-07-03 15:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Express Tribune: The first rain of the monsoons wreaked havoc in Chitral, but more alarmingly, served as an indicator of things to come in one of the most impoverished districts of the country. The area lost three-fourths of its infrastructural development in 2015. While the emphasis this year has once again been on disaster management instead of adaptive measures, 31 people are missing and 37 houses seven have been destroyed. Officials say these structures were in the path of a water channel induced by the flash...
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There's More Blue in Beijing Skies These Days
2016-07-02 12:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: You can see the mountains today in Beijing. That's a giveaway that the air's pretty clean. Of the six days that I've been in the city, the mountains north of the city have been visible on three. Beijing's air quality has always varied a lot from day to day depending on whether and which way the wind was blowing. Still, I was curious: could the famously bad air here actually be getting better? The answer seems to be yes. There still are terrible days, especially in the winter. But overall, average...
Goodbye to Night: 80% of Humanity Lives Under Light Polluted Skies
2016-06-11 20:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Discover: The beauty of the night sky is rapidly fading, and an update to the first global light pollution map, created 15 years ago, makes that painfully clear. The new atlas revealed that more than 80 percent of the world lives under light-polluted skies that rises to 99 percent of the population in the United States and Europe. One-third of humanity can no longer see the Milky Way. As the new map shows, the night sky is slowly retreating to the glow of artificial light. Losing the Night Over...
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Safe Skies Key to Africas Growth
2016-04-15 11:58:00| Airport Technology
Despite the current financial turmoil, the World Bank estimated Sub-Saharan Africa's growth at 3.7% for 2015, with a slight uptick to 4.4% and 4.8% in 2016 and 2017 respectively. Six African countries feature in the bank's list of the 13 economies pr
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