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London air pollution dangerously high, campaigners warn
2013-10-04 13:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Air pollution from traffic and industry is dangerously high in east London, according to tests by local "citizen scientists". Local environment groups placed 36 diffusion monitoring tubes on structures close to parks, bus stops, busy roads and in residential areas, to measure emissions in more than 30 streets. They were left for four weeks and only four were removed or stolen. Analysis by a laboratory used by government found that concentrations of the toxic exhaust pipe gas nitrogen dioxide...
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Fresno, Calif.'s Groundwater is Dangerously Low
2013-09-07 17:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: For decades, this city in California's agricultural heartland relied exclusively on cheap, plentiful groundwater and pumped increasingly larger amounts from an aquifer as its population grew. But eventually, the water table dropped by more than 100 feet, causing some of Fresno's wells to cave in and others to slow to a trickle. The cost of replacing those wells and extracting groundwater ballooned by 400 percent. "We became the largest energy demand in the region - $11 million a year for electricity...
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Small drone spotted dangerously close to jet over NYC
2013-03-06 00:07:53| CNET News.com
Jet pilot reports the small, unmanned craft came within 200 feet as the Alitalia flight made its approach into JFK airport. [Read more]