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Air Pollution Linked to 5.5 Million Premature Deaths
2016-02-20 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Air pollution caused more than 5.5 million people to die prematurely in 2013, according to research presented on Friday, with more than half of those deaths in India and China and illnesses in those countries almost certain to rise. According to scientists from the U.S., Canada, China and India, who presented their findings at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Washington DC, conditions caused by air pollution killed 1.6 million people in China...
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Rise in air pollution level increases cases of stroke: New study
2016-02-20 05:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Press Trust of India: Researchers also found that temperature had an impact on air quality and risk of stroke. Higher pollution levels are linked to an increased number of strokes, according to a new study that reaffirms the growing evidence that climate change and overall air quality contributes to cardiovascular disease. The research, which used data from the US and China, is one of the first to study the interaction between air quality and the number of stroke cases along with the potential effect of temperatures...
Exposure to air pollution increases risk of obesity
2016-02-19 21:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Laboratory rats who breathed Beijing's highly polluted air gained weight and experienced cardio-respiratory and metabolic dysfunctions after three to eight weeks of exposure. A study appearing in the March issue of the Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) placed pregnant rats and their offspring in two chambers, one exposed to outdoor Beijing air and the other containing an air filter that removed most of the air pollution particles. After only 19 days,...
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Study finds household and outdoor air pollution contributes to more than 5.5 million premature deaths worldwide per year
2016-02-12 23:56:40| Green Car Congress
UBC study links traffic air pollution exposure during pregnancy with asthma risk
2016-02-10 12:56:07| Green Car Congress
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