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Fukushima horse breeder braves high radiation levels to care for animals
2013-10-27 17:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Until March 2011, Tokue Hosokawa had only to peer through the window of his home in Iitate village to confirm that all was well with his 100-year-old family business. The 130 or so horses that once roamed this sprawling farm in Fukushima prefecture have sustained three generations of Hosokawa's family. Some were sold for their meat a local delicacy but his animals were better known for their appearances in commercials, period TV dramas and films, and local festivals celebrating the region's...
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Portable IR Analyzer Provides ASTM Method for On-site Measurement of Soot Levels in Diesel ...
2013-10-25 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
The InfraCal Soot Meter, from Wilks, provides users with a rapid, on-site ASTM Method D7686 for measuring soot concentration levels in diesel engine oils. Soot levels as high as 12% - 15% are easily measured in just 30 seconds. This compact, pushbutton analyzer provides direct readout of the percent of suspended carbon (soot) in the diesel engine lubricating oil without sample preparation, dilution, or solvents and messy transmission cells to clean. <br /> <br /> Since the InfraCal Soot Meter ...This story is related to the following:Test and Measuring InstrumentsSearch for suppliers of:
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Study Finds High Levels of Carcinogens Downwind of Petrochemical Plants in Edmonton
2013-10-24 07:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Edmonton Journal: A newly published study says air downwind from a cluster of petrochemical plants northeast of Edmonton contains pollutants at levels equal to some of the world's largest cities. Other pollutants, including some known to cause cancer, also measured well above normal. And cancer rates linked to those chemicals were found to be higher in communities closest to the so-called Industrial Heartland. Although scientists don't definitively link the two, one of the report's co-authors said the findings...
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US energy-related emissions drop to 1994 levels
2013-10-22 12:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: US energy-related carbon emissions dropped 3.8 per cent in 2012 to 5.29 billion metric tons last year, reaching their lowest level since 1994. An Energy Information Administration (EIA) report published yesterday also confirms energy consumption fell by 2.4 per cent last year even as the US continued its economic recovery with GDP growing by 2.8 per cent. The improvement in energy efficiency meant that energy use per dollar of GDP, or energy intensity, fell 5.1 per cent. According to the new...
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Upwards of 90% of EU city dwellers exposed to PM2.5 and O3 pollution at levels deemed harmful by WHO
2013-10-17 21:30:17| Green Car Congress
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