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How Air Pollution May Have Caused Catastrophic Flooding in China
2015-07-16 23:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Air pollution isn't just bad for your health. It can have dramatic effects on weather and climate. In fact, a team of scientists believes that air pollution from industries and traffic could have caused the extreme floods that devastated southwest China in 2013. In July of that year, China's Sichuan province was racked with floods from the worst storms it had seen in 50 years. The greatest damage occurred in a mountainous region northwest of the Sichuan Basin, where nearly 30 inches of rain fell...
MEPs vote for tougher air pollution limits
2015-07-16 15:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Governments across the EU could soon face a new round of tough new air pollution targets, after MEPs on the European parliaments environment committee narrowly voted in favour of fresh round of air quality standards. The committee on Wednesday voted 38 in favour and 28 against, backing a new package of measures that would require member states to meet limits on six pollutants by 2030. The MEPs also voted for interim binding targets for 2025 for all of the designated pollutants except methane...
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Euro Parliament Environment Committee votes for tightened air pollution targets
2015-07-16 12:55:36| Green Car Congress
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Light-Based Technologies At Work: Seeing' Through Walls, Monitoring Cancer Treatments And Air Pollution, Preserving Artworks -- And Much More
2015-07-08 05:57:05| metrologyworld Home Page
Co-located major European conferences in optical metrology and biomedical optics held in Munich, Germany, 21-25 June, featured highlights including two Nobel Laureates who presented during an International Year of Light (IYL2015) session on their pioneering work to enhance the resolution of microscopes
Light-Based Technologies At Work: Seeing' Through Walls, Monitoring Cancer Treatments And Air Pollution, Preserving Artworks -- And Much More
2015-07-08 05:57:05| pollutiononline News Articles
Co-located major European conferences in optical metrology and biomedical optics held in Munich, Germany, 21-25 June, featured highlights including two Nobel Laureates who presented during an International Year of Light (IYL2015) session on their pioneering work to enhance the resolution of microscopes
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