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L.A. County doing worse than N.Y.C. in childhood obesity fight
2013-01-18 09:51:09| Biotech - Topix.net
Los Angeles County is falling behind New York City in its push to lower childhood obesity among poor children, according to new data from The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Black carbon is worse for global warming than previously thought
2013-01-17 19:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: It rises from the chimneys of mansions and from simple hut stoves. It rises from forest fires and the tail pipes of diesel-fueled trucks rolling down the highway, and from brick kilns and ocean liners and gas flares. Every day, from every occupied continent, a curtain of soot rises into the sky. What soot does once it reaches the atmosphere has long been a hard question to answer. It's not that scientists don't know anything about the physics and chemistry of atmospheric soot. Just the opposite:...
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United Kingdom: Floods 'made worse by failure to clear water courses'
2013-01-03 18:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: The Met Office has confirmed that last year was the second wettest on record for the UK, just a few millimetres short of the record in 2000. The national forecasters also said that extreme rainfall has become more common in the last few decades, possibly as a consequence of climate change. Floods caused damage to thousands of properties, as well as destroying crops and causing transport chaos. Mr Paterson said a number of people have complained to him that failure to clear out rivers and...
Exxon Yellowstone oil spill made worse by delay-report
2013-01-03 01:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: An Exxon Mobil pipeline spill into the Yellowstone River in 2011 would have been far less severe if the company had not delayed closing valves, a report issued on Wednesday by federal pipeline regulators said. Exxon's Silvertip pipeline, which carries 40,000 barrels per day of crude in Montana, leaked about 1,500 barrels of oil into the Yellowstone River in July 2011 after the region suffered heavy flooding. Had Exxon Mobil Pipeline Company's shutdown procedures required remote controlled valves...
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