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Dengue fever sweeps Southeast Asia
2013-08-17 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wall Street Journal: Southeast Asia is scrambling to combat a deadly outbreak of dengue fever, the tropical illness transmitted by mosquitoes, which has hit parts of the region especially hard. Health experts suspect that an unusually early rainy season that brought mosquitoes out in April, months ahead of what is expected, contributed to the seriousness of the dengue challenge. Also, above-average temperatures that many experts blame on global warming encouraged early mosquito breeding. Meanwhile, dengue is thought...
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Killer Smog: East Asia, India, Southeast Asia top global air pollution
2013-07-18 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Diplomat: According to a new study, printed in the journal Environmental Research Letters, more than two million people lose their lives each year due to poor air quality. Researchers found that approximately 2.1 million premature deaths are the result of anthropogenic increases on fine particulate matter -- which includes dust, soot, and smoke -- measuring less than 2.5 micrometers in diameter (PM2.5). Nearly half a million more perish due to human-created ozone pollution. The study, titled Global premature...
Indonesia president apologizes for Southeast Asia smog
2013-06-25 02:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Indonesia's president has apologized for the raging forest fires that have blanketed its neighbors Singapore and Malaysia with thick smog in Southeast Asia's worst air pollution crisis in 16 years. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said Indonesia was doing everything it could to contain the fires on the island of Sumatra, including the deployment of military aircraft to waterbomb the blazes, and has earmarked around 200 billion rupiah ($20 million) to handle the disaster. The week-long environmental...
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Southeast Asia e-tailer Lazada raises $100M in funding
2013-06-20 07:45:00| CNET News.com
Online retailer, which bills itself as the "Amazon of Southeast Asia," hopes to tap a market where online shopping has yet to gain traction. [Read more]
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BMW Group and NTU launch future mobility research lab in Southeast Asia; focus on EVs and mega-cities
2013-04-23 19:30:31| Green Car Congress
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