2013 sees cleaner trucks and buses across EU
Under new European Union rules to combat pollution, trucks and buses rolling off assembly lines this year will produce significantly less harmful exhaust fumes.
Jan 04, 2013
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Cooking up clean air in Africa: Reducing air pollution and meningitis risk in Ghana
They're little more than a pile of burning sticks with a stewpot atop them. But these open fires or basic cookstoves have been linked to the premature deaths of 4 million people annually, many of them young ...
Jan 04, 2013
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US town bans bottled water
Water, water everywhere—just not in plastic bottles, says a town in the US state of Massachusetts.
Jan 02, 2013
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Groundbreaking air-cleaner saves polluting industrials
Industries across Europe are threatened with shutdown as European Union emission rules for Volatile Organic Compounds are tightened. Now an air cleaning invention from the University of Copenhagen has proven ...
Dec 28, 2012
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Wood-burning sets off pollution alarm bells in Athens
Air pollution in Athens has surged in recent days because of people choosing wood over more expensive fuels to heat their homes in the grips of a continuing economic crisis, the environment ministry said ...
Dec 28, 2012
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Variable congestion charges may yield more stable air quality and improved health
Higher congestion charges in the morning and in the spring would even out the negative health effects caused by air pollution from cars in large cities.
Dec 19, 2012
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New peatland bacteria feed on greenhouse gas and excess fertilizer, study finds
Researchers from Radboud University Nijmegen and B-WARE Research Centre have discovered new methane-consuming bacteria in the soil beneath the Brunssummerheide peatland reserve in Limburg, the Netherlands. ...
Dec 19, 2012
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Ozone levels have sizeable impact on worker productivity
Researchers in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health assessed the impact of pollution on agricultural worker productivity using daily variations in ozone levels. Their ...
Dec 18, 2012
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Scientists find a way to distinguish the aerosol particle signal from the weather noise
(Phys.org)—Scientists developed a modeling shortcut to dial in a clearer atmospheric particle signal. A research team from the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, the University of Washington, and Pacific ...
Dec 14, 2012
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UK government lifts ban on gas 'fracking'
The British government on Thursday ended the suspension of the controversial shale gas extraction method known as fracking in Britain.
Dec 13, 2012
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Reducing underwater noise to help health of marine wildlife
US energy experts say drilling can be made cleaner (Update)
In the Colorado mountains, a spike in air pollution has been linked to a boom in oil and gas drilling. On the plains of north Texas, there's a drilling boom, too, but some air pollution levels have declined. ...
Dec 10, 2012
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Onion soaks up heavy metal, researchers find
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 contaminated materials, according to a research paper published in the ...
Dec 10, 2012
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Taiwan's Formosa wins appeal on plant conditions
Taiwan's leading conglomerate Formosa Plastics said Friday it won an appeal against strict environmental conditions the government imposed on the building of a $180 million petrochemical plant.
Dec 07, 2012
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New Earth at night images reveal global light pollution problem
NASA's new 'Black Marble' images of the nighttime Earth aren't so black. They reveal that our globe is heavily littered with excessive and wasteful lighting that produces light pollution – a bright glow over o ...
Dec 07, 2012
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