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Pollution Is Radically Changing Childhood in Chinas Cities
2013-04-23 04:37:26| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The boys chronic cough and stuffy nose began last year at the age of 3. His symptoms worsened this winter, when smog across northern China surged to record levels. Now he needs his sinuses cleared every night with saltwater piped through a machines tubes. The boys mother, Zhang Zixuan, said she almost never lets him go outside, and when she does she usually makes him wear a face mask. The difference between Britain, where she once studied, and China is heaven and hell, she said. Levels of...
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Global Health Plan Aims to End a Third of Childhood Deaths
2013-04-13 02:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: The United Nations has unveiled a major framework aimed at, for the first time, coordinating worldwide efforts to work simultaneously to end childhood pneumonia- and diarrhoea-related deaths by 2025. Together, these two diseases account for around 30 percent of all deaths of children under five years old, around two million every year. According to new data released by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF), most such deaths are taking place due to "piecemeal"...
Nostalgic for Your Childhood Grilled Cheese? Write About It
2013-04-11 23:38:28| Agriculture - Topix.net
La Brea Bakery, a bakery turned regional chain and bread distributor founded by Nancy Silverton, is looking for a tale that captures how grilled cheese sandwiches evoke a sense of home with The Grilled Cheese Reunion , an online contest running from now until the end of this month.
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UCLA researchers find potential link between traffic pollution and some rare childhood cancers
2013-04-10 11:30:14| Green Car Congress
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Road Traffic Pollution as Serious as Passive Smoke in the Development of Childhood Asthma
2013-03-22 03:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: New research conducted in 10 European cities has estimated that 14% of chronic childhood asthma is due to exposure to traffic pollution near busy roads. The results are comparable to the burden associated with passive smoking: the World Health Organization estimates that between 4% and 18% of asthma cases in children are linked to passive smoking. The findings, published online today (22 March 2013) ahead of print in the European Respiratory Journal, come as the European Commission has declared...
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