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Polluted air linked to 7 million deaths in 2012 : WHO
2014-03-24 18:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Air pollution killed about 7 million people in 2012, making it the world's single biggest environmental health risk, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday. The toll, a doubling of previous estimates, means one in eight of all global deaths in 2012 was linked to polluted air and shows how reducing pollution inside and outside of people's homes could save millions of lives in future, the United Nations health agency said. Air pollution deaths are most commonly from heart disease,...
Polluted Paris chokes in the springtime sun
2014-03-14 16:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Air pollution in Paris has hit health-threatening levels over 80 percent higher than in London and Berlin as a sunny spell reaches western Europe, prompting the city to curb road speeds and offer free public transport. Charges were also waived for the city's pioneering cycle and electric car-sharing schemes this week as a visible haze hung over the streets of the French capital. European Environment Agency (EEA) figures for Thursday showed there was 147 micrograms of particulate matter (PM)...
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Wildlife casualties of floods grow amid fears over 'polluted' wetlands
2014-02-23 01:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Seals, moles, hedgehogs, badgers, mice, earthworms and a host of insects and seabirds are among the unseen casualties of the floods, storms and torrential rains of the last few weeks, say wildlife groups. As the waters started to subside across England, conservationists reported that about 600 guillemots, puffins, razorbills, kittiwakes and gulls have been washed up on the south coast and 250 seals drowned in Norfolk, Cornwall and the Channel Islands. A further 11,000 seabirds are reported to...
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In West Virginia, Polluted Water Squeezes Wallets And Patience
2014-02-16 23:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Nate May's Prius is loaded down with water. The back is filled with boxes, each holding three one-gallon jugs that he just bought at Walmart. He and other volunteers are driving around Charleston, W.V., dropping off the jugs to people who have contacted his ad hoc group, the West Virginia Clean Water Hub. It's paid for with donations. "There are a lot of people this has put in a difficult bind. Some of them can't get out, some of them are elderly, some of them it's just too much of a financial...
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New Delhi is More Polluted than Beijing: Study
2014-01-30 22:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: New Delhi has surpassed Beijing as the most polluted major city in the world according to new research from the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), which reports that the Indian capital will continue to be more polluted than its Chinese counterpart because it is not doing as much to protect public health. Beijing has frequently been in the news for its out-of-control pollution, but officials there are making an effort to reduce pollution levels in the city, but New Delhi has not taken as...
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