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China's premier 'declares war' on pollutionBeijing (AFP) March 05, 2014 Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Wednesday said he is "declaring war" on pollution, describing it as a "red-light warning" against inefficiency as he sought to address public concerns on issues from acrid smog to food safety. China's three decades of rapid industrialisation and urbanisation have transformed its economy, and seen incomes soar. But they have also brought severe environmental consequences, with the public enraged by cities regularly blanketed in smog, and incidents such as thousands ... read more |
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 Non-Uniform Climate Warming Affects Carbon Cycle And Ecosystems Europe's largest terrestrial predator dinosaur found in Portugal First-ever 3D image created of the structure beneath Sierra Negra volcano Livestock can produce food that is better for the people and the planet Brain circuits multitask to detect, discriminate the outside world Maize Plus Bacteria: One-Two Punch Knocks Copper Out of Stamp Sand | .. |
 Jailed Sochi ecologist sent to far-flung colony: group Russian environmentalist Yevgeny Vitishko, who was sentenced to three years in prison during the Sochi Olympic Games, has been transferred to a penal colony almost 1,000 kilometres away, his organisation said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Haze heavier around Beijing Thick smog shrouding Beijing and its surrounding areas becomes heavier as the capital has raised its four-tiered alert system to "orange". The smog covered about 1.4 million square km of centr ... more | .. |
 Haze-hit Indonesian province declares emergency An Indonesian province at the heart of a Southeast Asian smog crisis last year has declared a state of emergency after being blanketed in thick haze from forest fires, officials said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 China smog drives masks out of stock China's biggest online face-mask sellers were running out of stock Wednesday as consumers rushed to protect themselves from smog that has shrouded large swathes of northern China for a week. ... more |
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 Bulgaria chokes on air pollution fuelled by poverty The smokestacks of Kremikovtzi steel mill on Sofia's outskirts may have shut down years ago, but ancient cars ensure that Bulgaria's capital is still the most polluted in Europe. ... more | .. |
Air purifier rush as smog shrouds northern China Dangerous smog which has blighted swathes of northern China in recent days has prompted a spike in air purifier sales, local media reported Monday, as pollution continued to shroud Beijing. ... more | .. |
 China's Xi breathes Beijing smog on surprise outing China's President Xi Jinping paid a rare visit to one of Beijing's smog-hit streets Tuesday, drawing praise from Internet users for his latest apparent attempt to portray himself as close to ordinary citizens. ... more | .. |
 New Test Screens Wastewater Biosolids for Environmental Contaminants Every year waste treatment facilities in the United States process more than eight million tons of semi-solid sewage called biosolids-about half of which is recycled into fertilizer and spread on cr ... more |
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 New Bedford Harbor pollution prompts PCB-resistance in Atlantic killifish For four decades, waste from nearby manufacturing plants flowed into the waters of New Bedford Harbor-an 18,000-acre estuary and busy seaport. The harbor, which is contaminated with polychlorinated ... more | .. |
 Tuna study reveals oil pollution causes heart problems The reason people have more heart attacks when air pollution levels rise may have been revealed by a study on the impact of the BP oil spill on tuna, scientists said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 France to start pumping out Spanish ship broken in three Teams from a salvage company and a French coast guard anti-pollution squad are to start Friday pumping fuel out of a Spanish cargo ship which has broken into three sections after a spectacular shipwreck in bad weather. ... more | .. |
 S. Korea fisheries minister sacked over oil spill South Korean President Park Geun-Hye on Thursday sacked the country's fisheries minister over a huge oil spill that has fouled the shoreline off the southern port of Yeosu. ... more |
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 Cooperative SO2 and NOx aerosol formation in haze pollution Air pollution in China has exhibited noticeable changes over the past 30 years, shifting from point-source pollution (around factories and industrial plants) in the 1980s to urban pollution in the 1 ... more | .. |
 Asian ozone pollution in Hawaii is tied to climate variability Air pollution from Asia has been rising for several decades but Hawaii had seemed to escape the ozone pollution that drifts east with the springtime winds. Now a team of researchers has found that s ... more | .. |
Made in China for us: Air pollution tied to exports Chinese air pollution blowing across the Pacific Ocean is often caused by the manufacturing of goods for export to the U.S. and Europe, according to findings by UC Irvine and other researchers publi ... more | .. |
 Delhi says air 'not as bad' as Beijing after smog scrutiny India's air monitoring centre denied Wednesday that pollution in New Delhi was worse than in Beijing, following scrutiny of the Indian capital's winter smog, which shrouds the city each year. ... more |
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 Robotic Exploration of Moon, Mars a Priority Opportunity Mars Rover Exploring Murray Ridge Area Russia to launch three lunar rovers from 2016 to 2019 China to launch first "space shuttle bus" this year A small step toward discovering habitable earths Spiral galaxy spills blood and guts | .. |
 Integrating vegetation into sustainable transportation planning may benefit public health Strategic placement of trees and plants near busy roadways may enhance air quality and positively impact public health. In recent years, the health of people living, working, or going to schoo ... more | .. |
 India's Essar sues Greenpeace for $80 mn for defamation Indian energy group Essar said Tuesday it is suing Greenpeace for defamation over a giant banner unfurled on the front of the conglomerate's headquarters that read "We kill forests". ... more | .. |
 US study finds pesticide may raise risk of Alzheimer's People with Alzheimer's disease may have higher levels of a chemical left behind by the pesticide DDT than healthy elderly people, suggested a US study out Monday. ... more | .. |
US consumers to blame for some air pollution from China Air pollution from China blows across the Pacific Ocean and ends up over the US west coast - and American consumerism is to blame for a portion of it, said a study Monday. ... more |
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 Loss of biodiversity limits toxin degradation You might not think of microbes when you consider biodiversity, but it turns out that even a moderate loss of less than 5% of soil microbes may compromise some key ecosystem functions and could lead ... more | .. |
 Waterfowl poisoning halved by lead shot prohibition Lead shot was forbidden in 2001 in Spanish wetlands on the Ramsar List of these areas of international importance. Ten years later, this prohibition -and the consequent use of steel shot by hunters- ... more | .. |
Dangerous pollution hits China's capital China's capital was shrouded in dangerous smog on Thursday, cutting visibility down to a few hundred metres as a count of small particulate pollution reached more than 25 times recommended levels. ... more | .. |
 Toxic chemicals found in children's clothes, shoes: Greenpeace Children's clothing and shoes made by a dozen globally-recognised brands have been found to contain potentially harmful chemicals, Greenpeace said Tuesday. ... more |
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