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Scientists Relate Urban Population To Air Pollution
2013-08-26 07:20:16| pollutiononline News Articles
Live in a large city like New York, London, Beijing or Mumbai, and you are likely exposed to more air pollution than people in smaller cities in surrounding areas. But exactly how a city's pollution relates to the size of its population has never been measured, until now
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Can UN scientists revive drive against climate change?
2013-08-25 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: A leaden cloak of responsibility lies on the shoulders of UN scientists as they put the final touches to the first volume of a massive report that will give the world the most detailed picture yet of climate change. Due to be unveiled in Stockholm on September 27, the document will be scrutinized word by word by green groups, fossil-fuel lobbies and governments to see if it will yank climate change out of prolonged political limbo. The report will kick off the fifth assessment by the Intergovernmental...
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Scientists warn Puerto Rico not prepared for climate change effects
2013-08-24 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Windsor Star: Environmental officials and scientists warned Friday that Puerto Rico is dangerously vulnerable to the effects of global climate change and urged it to prepare by better-regulated coastal development, and perhaps even by building artificial reefs. The storm-caused floods and erosion that have always affected the U.S. Caribbean territory are expected to grow worse as temperatures and seas rise, perhaps by 22 inches (57 centimetres) by 2060, according to a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers study. Nearly...
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Scientists will use cosmic rays to peer inside Fukushima reactor
2013-08-23 13:31:50| Extremetech
Muons created in the upper atmosphere will let researchers from Los Alamos National Labs see the state of the heavily shielded core of the damaged and dangerous Fukushima reactor. The researchers are using cosmic rays to create what is essentially an X-ray of the core's damage.
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Scientists more certain than they have ever been that humans are causing climate change
2013-08-21 19:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Scientists are more certain than they have ever been that humans are causing climate change and believe that sea levels could rise by up to 2ft 8in by the end of the century. These are among the key findings likely to be published next month in the most authoritative and comprehensive report ever conducted into climate science - the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changes (IPCC) fifth assessment, known as AR5. According to a draft of the report, the certainty that humans are the main...
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