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Freeway Air Pollution Travels Farther than Previously Thought
2013-04-22 23:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: Los Angeles is known not only for its celebrity clientele, but also for its congested roadways and heavy traffic, which consequently has led to severely polluted air, and the title of the "smoggiest city" in the United States. While air quality has improved somewhat in LA, a joint study by UCLA and the California Air Resources Board suggests that nearly a quarter of Angelenos are exposed to noxious plumes of freeway fumes almost every morning, far more people than previously thought. Researchers...
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Pollution plumes in Paris air are richer in gaseous aromatic compounds than in LA; gasoline engines main source of VOCs
2013-04-19 23:30:16| Green Car Congress
Pollution plumes in Paris air are richer in gaseous aromatic compounds than in Los Angeles
2013-04-19 05:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: What is the origin of the volatile hydrocarbons, other than methane, present in city air? Mainly gasoline-powered vehicles[1], according to a study carried out by a French-US team[2] including French researchers from the Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques (LISA/IPSL[3], CNRS / UPEC / Université Paris Diderot) and the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE/IPSL, CNRS / CEA / Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines). The study also shows...
Air pollution scourge underestimated, green energy can help: U.N.
2013-04-10 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Air pollution is an underestimated scourge that kills far more people than AIDS and malaria and a shift to cleaner energy could easily halve the toll by 2030, U.N. officials said on Tuesday. Investments in solar, wind or hydropower would benefit both human health and a drive by almost 200 nations to slow climate change, blamed mainly on a build-up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere from use of fossil fuels, they said. "Air pollution is causing more deaths than HIV or malaria combined," Kandeh...
Amid China air, water pollution, soil survey reveals century-old heavy metals
2013-04-10 09:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Soil samples across China have revealed remnants of toxic heavy metals dating back at least a century and traces of a pesticide banned in the 1980s, an environmental official said on Wednesday, revealing the extent of the country's pollution problems. Street-level anger over air pollution that blanketed many northern cities this winter spilled over into online appeals for Beijing to clean water supplies, especially after rotting corpses of thousands of pigs were found last month in a river that...
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