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Canada: Air Pollution and Cancer Spikes linked in Alberta
2013-10-24 18:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: Alberta is Canada's industry epicenter and home to more than 40 companies that produce industrial emissions. Recent studies conducted by the University of California and the University of Michigan have indicated higher levels of contaminants which can potentially be linked to spikes in the incidences of cancer in the region. The findings by UC Irvine and University of Michigan scientists, published online this week, reveal high levels of the carcinogens 1,3-butadiene and benzene and other airborne...
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China: Air pollution can wreck your mental health too
2013-10-24 12:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: When planning a recent trip to Beijing, I was delighted to see that the forecast predicted perfect weather: sunny, clear, highs in the 70s with no chance of rain. So imagine my surprise when on my first morning in the city I looked out the window and saw a dense, immobile ceiling of dark gray clouds. It wasnt that Weather.com got it wrong. It was that pollution was unusually high that day - the U.S. Embassy Air Quality Index (AQI) readings were over 400 parts per million of PM2.5, well into the...
China send air pollution inspection teams to provinces
2013-10-24 06:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: China's Environment Ministry said on Thursday it will send inspection teams to provinces and cities most seriously affected by smog to ensure rules on fighting air pollution are being enforced. Air quality in cities is of increasing concern to China's stability-obsessed leaders, anxious to douse potential unrest as a more affluent urban population turns against a growth-at-all-costs economic model that has poisoned much of the country's air, water and soil. China's smog crisis was thrown back...
IARC: Outdoor air pollution carcinogenic to humans
2013-10-17 19:31:03| Green Car Congress
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Air pollution should be classified as carcinogenic: WHO cancer agency
2013-10-17 13:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The air we breathe is laced with cancer-causing substances and should now be classified as carcinogenic to humans, the World Health Organisation's (WHO) cancer agency said on Thursday. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) cited data indicating that in 2010, 223,000 deaths from lung cancer worldwide resulted from air pollution, and said there was also convincing evidence it increases the risk of bladder cancer. The WHO is a Geneva-based agency of the United Nations focused...
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