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Global Warming Biggest Risk to Australia's Great Barrier Reef
2015-05-25 16:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sputnik: Global warming poses the greatest risk to Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the largest coral reef in the world, the chairman of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Russell Reichelt, said Monday. "Climate change is the single biggest long-term risk to the reef," Reichelt told a parliamentary inquiry hearing, days before United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization makes a decision on whether the reef will be placed on the "endangered list," as quoted by Financial Review....
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Australia: Great Barrier Reef's 'single biggest risk' climate change
2015-05-25 09:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Financial Review: The chairman of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Russell Reichelt, says climate change posed the biggest risk to the long-term future of the reef but said he believed there was enough government funding at the moment to tackle the problem. Just days before UNESCO will make its decision on whether the Great Barrier Reef will be placed on the "endangered" list, Dr Reichelt said he was encouraged by the $140 million in extra funding from the federal government to improve water quality...
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New Research Finds Fine Particulate Air Pollution Associated With Increased Risk Of Childhood Autism
2015-05-22 06:40:07| pollutiononline Home Page
Exposure to fine particulate air pollution during pregnancy through the first two years of a child’s life may be associated with an increased risk of the child developing autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a condition that affects one in 68 children, according to aUniversity of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Healthinvestigation of children in southwestern Pennsylvania
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Early exposure to PM2.5 associated with increased risk of childhood autism; causality unproven
2015-05-21 21:55:45| Green Car Congress
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Fine particulate air pollution associated with increased risk of childhood autism
2015-05-21 19:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Exposure to fine particulate air pollution during pregnancy through the first two years of a child's life may be associated with an increased risk of the child developing autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a condition that affects one in 68 children, according to a University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health investigation of children in southwestern Pennsylvania. The research is funded by The Heinz Endowments and published in the July edition of Environmental Research. "Autism spectrum...
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