Trillions of dollars, euros and yuan pouring into post-pandemic economies must build a "healthy and green recovery", 200 medical groups representing 40 million health professionals worldwide told G20 leaders Tuesday in an ...
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May 26, 2020
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Growing socioeconomic and geographical inequalities are contributing to a stagnation of Australian life expectancy, new research published in Australian Population Studies shows.
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May 25, 2020
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Since millions of Californians began staying at home and off the roads in March, air quality in the Golden State has visibly improved. Once life returns to normal, however, air pollution levels are likely to return to their ...
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May 05, 2020
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A new study, published in Environmental Health Perspectives, has found that clean cooking with liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) could avert 28,000 premature deaths and reduce global temperatures through successful implementation ...
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Apr 02, 2020
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Nearly 90 percent of the 200 cities beset by the world's highest levels of deadly micro-pollution are in China and India, with most of the rest in Pakistan and Indonesia, researchers reported Tuesday.
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The global cost of air pollution caused by fossil fuels is $8 billion a day, or roughly 3.3 percent of the entire world's economic output, an environmental research group said on Wednesday.
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Feb 12, 2020
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As winter grips the Balkans, the poor are caught in a cruel bind, being forced to light fires at home for heating while fuelling a pollution crisis smothering the region.
Environment
Jan 17, 2020
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Barcelona imposed a ban Thursday on older, more polluting vehicles during most of the day in a bid to reduce air pollution in Spain's second largest city.
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Jan 02, 2020
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Japan, the Philippines and Germany top a list of countries worst hit by climate-enhanced extreme weather last year, with Madagascar and India close behind, researchers said Wednesday.
Environment
Dec 04, 2019
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Air pollution doesn't just come from cars on the road, generating electricity from fossil fuels also releases fine particulate matter into the air.
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Nov 20, 2019
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