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Pollution Increases Allergies in Children

11/1/2008 - (NaturalNews) Regular exposure to pollution from traffic increases children's risk of developing allergies by more than 50 percent, according to a study conducted by researchers from the German Research Center for Environment and Health at the Institute...

Air Pollution May be to Blame for Honeybee Population Collapse

10/17/2008 - (NaturalNews) Air pollution is making it harder for bees and other pollinating insects to find food, according to a new study conducted by researchers from the University of Virginia. Pollutants such as ozone (smog) and nitrate radicals, formed mostly...

Air Pollution Causes Blood Clots

9/7/2008 - (NaturalNews) Air pollution produced by the burning of fossil fuels can drastically increase people's risk of developing potentially fatal blood clots, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health and published...

California Air Pollution Found to Kill 24,000 A Year

9/6/2008 - (NaturalNews) Particulate pollution from the burning of fossil fuels kills 24,000 people per year in California, according to the newest figures from the California Air Resources Board. This is nearly three times higher than the 8,200 people previously...

Polluted air from China now reaching Western U.S. states

12/10/2007 - (NaturalNews) A massive cloud of pollution from Asia's fast-growing industrial economies is having wide-ranging effects on global climate and air quality. According to a study recently published in the Journal of Geophysical Research, tremendous plumes...

8,000 Toxic Waste Sites Ignored by EPA; Massive Lead Contamination at Shooting Ranges

12/6/2007 - Firing ranges expose the environment and the ecosystem to lead pollution caused by the presence of lead in ammunition projectiles. This makes lead pollution a major concern for the public. When these bullets are fired, they emit lead particles that...

Diesel pollution clogs arteries, raises risk of heart disease

11/5/2007 - (NaturalNews) Diesel fumes interact with fatty acids found in LDL ("bad") cholesterol to raise the risk of heart disease, according to a study published in the online journal "Genome Biology." On their own, both diesel fumes and certain fatty acids...

Air pollution of cities more dangerous to health than living near Chernobyl radiation zone

5/23/2007 - (NaturalNews) Living with a smoker or in a major city places a person at greater risk of early death than living in the radioactive exclusion zone around Chernobyl, according to a study conducted by scientists at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in...

Asian pollution levels impact severity of Pacific storms

3/23/2007 - Spiking air pollution in Asia, driven by rapid industrialization and urbanization, has changed the atmosphere over the North Pacific enough to cause stronger-than-usual thunderstorms in the winter and may even have wider effects on the global climate,...

Livestock ranching a leading contributor to CO2 emissions, global warming

2/13/2007 - (NaturalNews) According to a United Nations report published last month, raising animals for food is one of the single biggest causes of global warming, in addition to land degradation and pollution of air and water. "The livestock sector emerges as...

Air pollution increases risk of heart disease and stroke, study says

2/8/2007 - (NaturalNews) A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine has discovered a significant correlation between the air pollution around a woman's home and her risk of heart disease. While only women were studied, researchers believe that...

Air pollution causing steady decline in India's rice production

12/22/2006 - (NaturalNews) A U.S. research team has found evidence suggesting that India's shrinking rice harvests -- which have been declining since the 1980s -- have been caused by the polluted clouds that are shrouding a large portion of South Asia and reducing...

China collecting environment tax to curb pollution that threatens economic future

12/13/2006 - (NaturalNews) An environmental tax may be coming to China since widespread pollution could hold back the country's continued economic growth, according to new reports fro China's Southern Daily newspaper. Mao Rubai -- chairman of the Environment and...

NASA okays the polluting of outer space with space station waste

11/23/2006 - (NaturalNews) The buildup of unwanted clutter from the International Space station has sparked years of debate, so NASA has finally decided that the best approach is to jettison some of the waste into space. NASA has a reputation for ingraining responsible...

Global collapse of seafood imminent, warn scientists

11/3/2006 - (NaturalNews) A report funded by the National Science Foundation's National Center for Ecological Synthesis and Analysis, appearing in Friday's issue of the journal Science, warns that overfishing and pollution may mean an end to seafood by 2048. "Whether...

Two million people a year killed by air pollution, says WHO

10/6/2006 - (NaturalNews) According to new research examined by the World Health Organization (WHO), air pollution in cities around the world causes roughly 2 million premature deaths each year. Yesterday members of the WHO's special program for health and the...

Investment in cleaner household energy yields major health and economic benefits (press release)

7/31/2006 - Every day for the next 10 years, 485 000 people would need to gain access to cleaner fuels in order to halve by 2015 the population relying on solid fuels. A new report from the World Health Organization, Fuel for Life: Household Energy and Health, demonstrates...

Mass pollution of earth's oceans reaches alarming levels

8/7/2004 - The health of the world's oceans is being destroyed by human beings, and a new group called the Seaweed Rebels wants to do something about it. It's all part of the so-called "blue movement" that hopes to raise awareness of the destruction now being dished...

The Top Ten Technologies: #2 Hydrogen Economy Enablers

7/14/2004 - One of the most significant global trends arriving in the near future is a shift away from fossil fuels and towards hydrogen. The term, "hydrogen economy" refers to a global economy powered by hydrogen, not oil. The hydrogen economy is important for...

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