Tag: Air Pollution - Page 2
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Reduced Air Pollution Means You May Live 4 Months Longer
In both rural and urban areas of the US decreases in fine particle air pollution from 2000-2007 has increased life expectancy, new research shows
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Artist to Transform a Los Angeles Billboard into a Floating Forest
A bamboo cloud forest will sprout over a Los Angeles freeway. And soon grow over your city too.
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Cargill to Stop Using Least Efficient Ships
The agribusiness giant is sending a major signal to ship owners that fuel efficiency matters.
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Interactive, Open Source Kite Project Gets Beijing Locals to Monitor Air Quality (Video)
Combining open-source technology and local traditions of kite-flying, FLOAT Beijing hopes to encourage "citizen science" in the self-monitoring of the city's air quality.
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LA's Pollution from Car Exhaust is Down 98% from the 1960s
We've made some seriously impressive progress in reducing the air pollution caused by cars, but we've still a ways to go.
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Union Pacific to Test 25 Cleaner Experimental Locomotives in California
Trains are great, but they can be even better if we deal with the air pollution that is created from burning diesel fuel.
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Urban Vegetation Can Reduce Air Pollution up to 8x More than Previously Believed
One more reason to hug trees!
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Thousands of Lives Would Have Been Saved If Obama Had Backed Stronger Smog Standards
According to Johns Hopkins scientists up to nearly 8000 lives would have been saved annually if President Obama backed the EPA's strongest recommendations for ozone pollution limits.
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Public Health Versus A Nevada Coal Plant
The Moapa Band of Paiutes are coping with health problems caused by the Reid Gardner coal-fired power plant in Nevada.
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Shell Asks EPA to Bend Air Pollution Rules So It Can Drill in Arctic
Several of Shell's ships grossly exceed EPA requirements to limit air pollution, so Shell asks that the rules be changed for them.
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Rio +20: Who is Really Responsible for Responsibility
TerraCycle looks at why all companies should begin a sustainability initiative.
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If We Collect Cigarette Butts, Does that Mean we Promote it?
An article describing the challenges and triumphs of collecting cigarette waste.
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GOP Rails Against Mercury & Toxic Pollution Rules, but "Life-Saving" Beats "Job-Killing"
In politics, life-saving can trump job-killing.
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We Need to Reduce Non-Exhaust Pollution from Traffic (Dust from Brakes, Tires, etc)
With so much attention paid to vehicle exhaust emissions, we sometimes forget that the engine isn't the only thing creating air pollution on an automobile.
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The Top 10 Worst Cities in the U.S. for Asthma in 2012
Having trouble breathing? It may be because of where you live. The 2012 Asthma Capitals list is out. Is your city on the list?
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Think Air Quality Regulations Don't Matter? Look at Pittsburgh in the 1940s!
These days when we think of eye-watering, lung-blackening smog, we mostly picture Chinese cities. But China's not special, it's just that they are industrializing later than others. The situation was similar in many areas of the United States...
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California's Smog Problem Putting Giant Sequoia Redwoods At Risk
Pollution from the Central Valley has turned the air quality in this national forest sour, and the iconic trees are showing evidence of the problem.
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Man-made Pollution Shifting Tropics and Sub-Tropics Poleward
"If a poleward displacement of the mid-latitude storm tracks also occurs, this will shift mid-latitude precipitation poleward, impacting regional agriculture, economy, and society."
