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India's air the worst, says studyNew Delhi (AFP) Feb 2, 2012 India has the worst air quality in the world, beating even its neighbour China, according to an annual survey based at Yale and Columbia universities in the United States. Of all the countries surveyed in the Environmental Performance Index (EPI), which measures the effects of polluted air on human health, India ranked the lowest at 132. The study used satellite data to measure air pollution concentrations. The level of fine particulate matter in India is nearly five times the limit where it ... read more |
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 Asthma rate and costs from traffic-related air pollution are much higher than once believed A research team led by University of Massachusetts Amherst resource economist Sylvia Brandt, with colleagues in California and Switzerland, have revised the cost burden sharply upward for childhood ... more | .. |
 100 countries back world environment agency: France More than a hundred countries now support a French proposal to create a "World Environment Organisation" at the upcoming 20th anniversary conference of the Rio Summit, France's ecology minister said on Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Philippine court orders massive dump site closure The Philippines' highest court has ordered the closure of a 30-year-old dump site near a popular tourist enclave, five months after an avalanche at the massive rubbish heap killed five. ... more | .. |
 Trafigura director can be prosecuted says Dutch court A Dutch court ruled Monday that multinational oil trader Trafigura's French co-founder could be prosecuted for illegal export of toxic waste, later dumped in Ivory Coast after a stopover in the Netherlands. ... more |
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Drone discovers 'river of blood' in Texas A drone enthusiast testing out his airborne camera discovered a river of blood behind a Texas meatpacking plant, prompting outrage and investigations by local authorities. ... more | .. |
 Nano form of titanium dioxide can be toxic to marine organisms The Bren School-based authors of a study published Jan. 20 in the journal PLoS ONE have observed toxicity to marine organisms resulting from exposure to a nanoparticle that had not previously been s ... more | .. |
 Mysterious Flotsam in Gulf of Mexico Came from Deepwater Horizon Rig Shortly after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, mysterious honeycomb material was found floating in the Gulf of Mexico and along coastal beaches. Using state-of-the-art chemical forensics and a bit of ... more | .. |
 BP could pay US $25 billion for Gulf oil spill: analyst BP could pay as much as $25 billion dollars to settle criminal and civil lawsuits relating to the massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, analyst group Morgan Stanley said Thursday. ... more |
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 Chinese cities disclose pollution data? Most of China's big cities failed to adequately make pollution data public last year, a new study indicates. ... more | .. |
 Hong Kong clean air targets fail to impress Environmentalists on Wednesday expressed disappointment at new clean-air targets for Hong Kong, as research showed pollution-related illnesses killed more than 3,000 residents a year. ... more | .. |
 Wood-burning stoves - harmful or safe? Wood-burning stoves are a popular source of heating in many countries. However in recent years there has been much debate about the potential negative health effects associated with wood smoke. A No ... more | .. |
 Warnings of ecological timebomb after Tuscan ship wreck Fears rose of an environmental disaster from a wrecked cruise ship in an area of outstanding natural beauty in Italy on Monday as hopes faded of finding any more survivors on board. ... more |
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 China sets pace for smoggy Hong Kong: think-tank Beijing's decision to come clean on its dirty air has embarrassed Hong Kong, where smog kills hundreds of people a year, hurts business and drives away talent, a think-tank has said. ... more | .. |
 In tackling lead pollution, fungi may be our friends Fungi may be unexpected allies in our efforts to keep hazardous lead under control. That's based on the unexpected discovery that fungi can transform lead into its most stable mineral form. Th ... more | .. |
 NIST releases 2 new SRMs for monitoring human exposure to environmental toxins The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has developed two new Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) for m ... more | .. |
 Bowing to pressure, Beijing begins hourly smog data Beijing on Thursday began publishing real-time air quality data on the Internet, bowing to a vocal online campaign for greater government transparency over pollution in China's capital. ... more |
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 New super-Earth detected within the habitable zone of a nearby star Capsule failure delays ISS crew mission U.K. study: Mars surface too dry for life Armadillo rocket flys high New Horizons Aims to Put Its Stamp on History NASA Receives Final NRC Report On Space Technology Roadmaps Scientists help define structure of exoplanets Russia to Start Own Search for Extrasolar Planets Eight more Galileo navsats agreed Space Radiation Blamed for Phobos-Grunt Crash Final Call to Register and Win Suborbital Research Flight Radio Doppler Tracking Continues at Cape York A dark spot on Mars - Syrtis Major Russia May Repeat Mars-500 Simulation on Space Station | .. |
 Global cyber anti-garbage drive aims to muster millions Cyber-environmentalists said Thursday they aim to mobilise millions of people around the world for a mass waste clean-up, saying they had to step in because governments had failed to do so. ... more | .. |
 Chemical measurements confirm official estimate of Gulf oil spill rate By combining detailed chemical measurements in the deep ocean, in the oil slick, and in the air, NOAA scientists and academic colleagues have independently estimated how fast gases and oil were leak ... more | .. |
 UCSB scientists say topography played key role in Deepwater Horizon disaster When UC Santa Barbara geochemist David Valentine and colleagues published a study in early 2011 documenting how bacteria blooms had consumed almost all of the deepwater methane plumes following the ... more | .. |
New oil leak as wreck's stern sinks off N. Zealand Fresh oil leaking from the wrecked cargo ship Rena off the New Zealand coast is expected to reach shore overnight, salvage officials said Tuesday. ... more |
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'Off the scale' smog grounds flights in Beijing More than 150 flights to and from Beijing were cancelled or delayed Tuesday as a thick cloud of acrid smog shrouded the city, with US figures saying the pollution was so bad it was off the scale. ... more | .. |
 Italy violated human rights in garbage crisis: court The Italian government violated residents' human rights by allowing festering heaps of garbage to go uncollected from the streets for months, a European high court said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
Looters in N.Z. raid cargo washed up from ship New Zealand police were forced to shut down a popular beach Monday to prevent looters raiding containers washed ashore from the stricken cargo ship Rena. ... more | .. |
 Stricken New Zealand cargo ship breaks up A cargo ship that caused New Zealand's worst maritime pollution disaster when it ran aground three months ago broke in two in a storm on Sunday, raising fears of a fresh environmental crisis. ... more |
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