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Small, Portable Sensors Allow Users to Monitor Exposure to Pollution on Their Smart Phones
Dec 24, 2012 (SPX)
Computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego have built a small fleet of portable pollution sensors that allow users to monitor air quality in...
Ozone levels have sizeable impact on worker productivity
Dec 21, 2012 (SPX)
Researchers in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health assessed the impact of pollution on agricultural wor...
US tightens restrictions on soot
Dec 14, 2012 (AFP)
The United States on Friday tightened restrictions on emissions of soot from industry and vehicles by 20 percent, predicting that the regulations would avert th...
Onion soaks up heavy metal
Dec 13, 2012 (SPX)
Onion and garlic waste from the food industry could be used to mop up hazardous heavy metals, including arsenic, cadmium, iron, lead, mercury and tin in contami...
Peru industrial pollution feeds conflict
Dec 07, 2012 (UPI)
Peru's industrial progress is proving costlier than expected as protests widen over industrial pollution, contamination of underground water resources and lead ...
Declining air pollution levels continue to improve life expectancy in US
Dec 06, 2012 (SPX)
A new study led by researchers at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) has found an association between reductions in fine particulate matter and improved lif...
Toxic cloud in Buenos Aires under control
Dec 06, 2012 (AFP)
A toxic cloud that formed Thursday triggered a public scare that forced the evacuation of offices in Buenos Aires and the suspension of metro and train services...
China aims to reduce air pollution
Dec 06, 2012 (UPI)
China has announced a new air pollution reduction plan. The plan, unveiled Wednesday at the U.N. climate talks in Doha, addresses PM2.5 -- fine particulate matt...
Asia air pollution deaths to rise: environment group
Dec 05, 2012 (AFP)
Air pollution in Asia, which already kills at least 800,000 people each year, will likely lead to even higher death rates as the region's air quality worsens, a...
Kerosene lamps spew black carbon, should be replaced
Dec 04, 2012 (SPX)
The primary source of light for more than a billion people in developing nations is also churning out black carbon at levels previously overlooked in climate wa...
Answer to Mongolia pollution is blowing in the wind
Dec 04, 2012 (AFP)
Mongolia's economic boom has been built on the vast coal reserves that lie under its seemingly endless steppes, but it is turning to wind to power itself and fi...
Poland set to become last EU state to ratify landmine pact
Dec 03, 2012 (AFP)
Poland is set to become the final member of the European Union to join the Ottawa Convention banning landmines, organisers said as a global conference on the de...
Pollution shuts schools, agencies in Tehran
Dec 03, 2012 (AFP)
Schools, universities and government agencies in Tehran will be closed on Tuesday and Wednesday due to pollution, the province's governor Morteza Tamadon said o...
Italy holds talks on polluted steel plant's future
Nov 29, 2012 (AFP)
Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti hosted talks on Thursday on the future of the giant ILVA steelworks in southern Italy, which have been shut down as part of a...
Scientists pioneer method to predict environmental collapse
Nov 26, 2012 (SPX)
Scientists at the University of Southampton are pioneering a technique to predict when an ecosystem is likely to collapse, which may also have potential for for...
Degraded military lands to get ecological boost from CU-led effort
Nov 26, 2012 (SPX)
Some arid lands in the American West degraded by military exercises that date back to General George Patton's Word War II maneuvers in the Mojave Desert should ...
Italian steel plant suspends operations in pollution row
Nov 26, 2012 (AFP)
Italy's ILVA steel mill which employs thousands of workers announced it was suspending operations on Monday after a magistrate issued seven arrest warrants for ...
India's capital widens ban on plastic bags
Nov 23, 2012 (AFP)
The Delhi government imposed a blanket ban on the use of all plastic bags on Friday in an attempt to tackle the city's mounting rubbish problems, an official sa...
Trash exhibition offers fresh peek at Everest
Nov 21, 2012 (AFP)
A group of artists is staging an exhibition of sculpture made from tonnes of trash collected on Mount Everest, highlighting the toll that decades of mountaineer...
Earth on Acid: The Present and Future of Global Acidification
Nov 20, 2012 (SPX)
Climate change and extreme weather events grab the headlines, but there is another, lesser known, global change underway on land, in the seas, and in the air: a...
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