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WHO Report: Indoor Air Pollution Is Greatest Environmental Health Risk
2014-03-26 01:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Seven million people die each year because of exposure to air pollution. That's one in eight deaths across the globe, making air pollution the single greatest environmental health risk on Earth. The estimate was reported this week by the World Health Organization; based on 2012 numbers, it is double the WHO's previous 2008 estimate. What's more shocking is that the air pollution is often in the victim's own home. More than half of those deaths are caused by indoor pollutants, which in the developing...
World Health Organisation: 7 million people died because of air pollution in 2012
2014-03-25 14:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has reveled that one in eight total global deaths in 2012 was been caused by air pollutants, which resulted in a high number of cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. The organisation estimates that pollution from industries, cooking fires and auto fumes caused 7 million premature deaths worldwide in 2012. Indoor and outdoor air pollution has resulted in a high number of people, especially in the Southeast Asia and Western Pacific regions, having respiratory...
WHO: air pollution 'is single biggest environmental health risk'
2014-03-25 13:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Air pollution has become the world's single biggest environmental health risk, linked to around 7 million or nearly one in eight deaths in 2012 according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). The new figures are more than double previous estimates and suggest that outdoor pollution from traffic fumes and coal-burning, and indoor pollution from wood and coal stoves, kills more people than smoking, road deaths and diabetes combined. Around 80% of the 3.7 million deaths from outdoor pollution...
Introducing LG's award-winning ARTCOOL Stylist Inverter V air conditioner
2014-03-25 13:13:08| Electronics - Topix.net
LG Electronics unveiled its latest flagship Residential Air Conditioning solution, ARTCOOL Stylist Inverter V, a winner of a 2014 iF Design Award.
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Air France-KLM picks GE to power Boeing 787 jets
2014-03-25 12:25:52| Airlines - Topix.net
Air France-KLM said on Monday it had chosen GEnx engines made by General Electric to power 25 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft it has ordered from Boeing .
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