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USGBC Says Over 1 Million People Experience a LEED-Certified Retail Space Daily
2014-10-27 06:00:00| Coatings World Breaking News
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Blackout Tracker Annual Report Shows 14 Million People Affected by Power Outages in 2013
2014-04-24 23:29:00| Electrical Construction & Maintenance
Eaton has released its Blackout Tracker Annual Report for 2013. read more
Pollution Killed 7 Million People Worldwide in 2012, Report Finds
2014-03-26 01:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: From taxi tailpipes in Paris to dung-fired stoves in New Delhi, air pollution claimed seven million lives around the world in 2012, according to figures released Tuesday by the World Health Organization. More than one-third of those deaths, the organization said, occurred in fast-developing nations of Asia, where rates of cardiovascular and pulmonary disease have been soaring. Around the world, one out of every eight deaths was tied to dirty air, the agency determined - twice as many as previously...
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World Health Organisation: 7 million people died because of air pollution in 2012
2014-03-25 14:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has reveled that one in eight total global deaths in 2012 was been caused by air pollutants, which resulted in a high number of cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. The organisation estimates that pollution from industries, cooking fires and auto fumes caused 7 million premature deaths worldwide in 2012. Indoor and outdoor air pollution has resulted in a high number of people, especially in the Southeast Asia and Western Pacific regions, having respiratory...
Climate change could leave another 50 million people facing hunger by 2050
2014-03-25 01:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Just three days after my homeland was devastated by typhoon Haiyan, the biggest storm ever to hit land, I attended the opening of the UN climate change talks in Poland. With a deep sense of anxiety about the fate of my family and friends, I pleaded with delegates to recognise that vulnerable countries such as the Philippines cannot cope with the overwhelming impacts of climate change alone. On Tuesday, governments meet in Japan to discuss a major new scientific report by the Intergovernmental...