News About Pollution 06-SEP-08 en-us Chicago (UPI) Aug 29, 2008 - State, local and federal officials gathered in Ohio this week to celebrate the cleanup of PCBs, uranium, radium and thorium from the Ashtabula River.]]> Sydney, Australia (SPX) Aug 28, 2008 - Heavy metal pollutants are linked to genetic mutations, stunted growth and declining fertility among small crustaceans in the Parramatta River, the main tributary of Sydney Harbour, new research shows.]]> Las Vegas NV (SPX) Aug 22, 2008 - New research, reported this week in the online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, finds that coal burning, primarily in North America and Europe, contaminated the Arctic and potentially affected human health and ecosystems in and around Earth's polar regions.]]> Stockholm (AFP) Aug 21, 2008 - A surprising 20 million people in the European Union do not have access to decent toilets and suffer from a lack of hygiene, posing serious health risks, experts meeting at World Water Week in Stockholm said.]]> Gloucester Point VA (SPX) Aug 21, 2008 - A global study led by Professor Robert Diaz of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William and Mary, shows that the number of "dead zones"-areas of seafloor with too little oxygen for most marine life-has increased by a third between 1995 and 2007.]]> Dhaka, Bangladesh (AFP) Aug 20, 2008 - Bangladesh banned a "toxic" oil tanker just days before it was to be beached and broken up, an official said Wednesday.]]> Cincinnati OH (SPX) Aug 20, 2008 - One in three U.S. public schools are in the "air pollution danger zone," according to new research from the University of Cincinnati (UC).]]> Helsinki (AFP) Aug 19, 2008 - In an attempt to curb littering, Finland's capital will distribute rubbish bins that say "thank you" in celebrity voices when they are fed trash, city project managers said Tuesday.]]> La Jolla CA (SPX) Aug 19, 2008 - Ah, nothing like breathing clean coastal air, right? Think again. Chemists at UC San Diego have measured for the first time the impact that dirty smoke from ships cruising at sea and generating electricity in port can have on the air quality of coastal cities.]]> Washington DC (SPX) Aug 15, 2008 - Using a novel theoretical approach, researchers from NASA and other institutions have identified the common thread that determines how aerosols from human activity, like the particles from burning of vegetation and forests, influence cloud cover and ultimately affect climate.]]> Jeju Island, South Korea (SPX) Aug 15, 2008 - Three Manta UAVs received airworthiness certification from the Korean Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) to fly from Jeongseok Airport at the beginning of the research project.]]> West Lafayette IN (SPX) Aug 13, 2008 - Researchers have discovered an unusual molecule that is essential to the atmosphere's ability to break down pollutants, especially the compounds that cause acid rain. It's the unusual chemistry facilitated by this molecule, however, that will attract the most attention from scientists.]]> Jakarta (AFP) Aug 11, 2008 - A tribal chief in Indonesia's West Papua launched a campaign Monday to get compensation from US mining giant Freeport for environmental damage to his homelands, a report said.]]> ]]>