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United Kingdom: Air pollution: What they are not telling us about smog
2014-04-03 07:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Suddenly we are all hearing about air pollution. More than three and a half million especially vulnerable people, with heart and lung conditions, were advised to "avoid strenuous activity' yesterday as levels of tiny but dangerous particles in the air reached the maximum level on the Government's official scale. Even relatively healthy people were advised to "reduce physical exertion'. Scores of flights were cancelled because of smog, and red dust -- swept up from the Sahara and carried by the...
United Kingdom: Saharan dust & pollution: confusion over health risk from smog cloud
2014-04-02 23:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Healthy schoolchildren were being kept indoors on Wednesday as government experts' conflicting messages about the dangers of smog led to widespread confusion. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs warned of "very high' levels of pollution due to a mixture of dust from the Sahara and industrial emissions from Europe arriving on a south-easterly breeze. But its own advisers at Public Health England admitted that the "vast majority of people' would feel no effects and independent...
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China's war on smog will be won or lost in polluted Hebei
2014-03-30 23:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: China's war on pollution is only a few weeks old, but the battle lines are already being drawn between Beijing and Hebei, the province most synonymous with dirty air. A succession of Hebei officials used the annual session of parliament in Beijing this month to urge the central government to boost subsidies to help with job losses and other costs from mandated cuts in industrial production across the country. One local official said Hebei was taking on too much of the burden. The pleas came...
Smog in Beijing Triggers New Warnings to Avoid Outdoors
2014-03-24 05:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Pollution in Beijing rose to nearly 10 times levels considered safe by the World Health Organization, triggering warnings to avoid outdoor activity. The concentration of PM2.5 -- the small particles that pose the greatest risk to human health -- hit 242 in the Chinese capital as of 3 p.m., a U.S. Embassy monitor said. The WHO recommends 24-hour exposure to PM2.5 levels of less than 25. High pollution levels prompted Premier Li Keqiang to say earlier this month the government would declare...
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Paris bans even-numbered license plates from city on Monday due to smog; virtuous vehicles exempt
2014-03-20 10:30:22| Green Car Congress
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