The EPA Has Started to Remove Obama-era Information
The Environmental Protection Agency’s website has begun to transform under the Trump Administration. This article was originally featured on Climate Central:
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By BBC News: Air pollution ’causes 467,000 premature deaths a year in Europe’
Air pollution is causing around 467,000 premature deaths in Europe every year, the European Environment Agency (EEA) has warned. People in urban areas are especially at risk, with around 85% exposed to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) at levels deemed harmful by the World Health Organization (WHO). These particles are too small to see or smell, […]
Use pram covers ‘to protect babies from air pollution’ : by BBC News
Parents should use pram covers to protect babies and young children from harmful air pollution during the school run, researchers suggest. Traffic lights and bus stops were pollution hotspots and there were higher levels of pollution in the morning compared with the afternoon, the University of Surrey study said. Young children are more at risk […]
Are fracking and earthquakes really connected?
Which American state has the most earthquakes? If you guessed Alaska or California, you might have been right — years ago. These days, the title goes to Oklahoma, where research links the oil and gas industry to the quakes. Oklahoma recorded 623 earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or higher in 2016; throughout the 1990s, it felt only […]
London breaches annual air pollution limit for 2017 in just five days
Brixton Road in Lambeth has already broken legal limits for toxic air for the entire year, with many other sites across the capital set to follow London has breached its annual air pollution limits just five days into 2017, a “shameful reminder of the severity of London’s air pollution”, according to campaigners. By law, hourly […]
US ‘nuclear sniffer’ plane deployed in Europe amid mysterious spike in radiation
A ‘nuclear sniffer’ plane has been sent to monitor radioactivity levels in Europe following the detection of mysterious spikes of radiation across the continent. The US military plane, called the WC-135 Constant Phoenix, landed at an air base in Surrey, a spokesperson at RAF Mildenhall confirmed to The Independent. It is now on its way towards Norway and the Barents […]
Media Center WHO: The cost of a polluted environment: 1.7 million child deaths a year, says WHO
6 March 2017 | GENEVA – More than 1 in 4 deaths of children under 5 years of age are attributable to unhealthy environments. Every year, environmental risks – such as indoor and outdoor air pollution, second-hand smoke, unsafe water, lack of sanitation, and inadequate hygiene – take the lives of 1.7 million children under […]
By NDTV: 2 Indians Die Every Minute Due To Air Pollution: Study
New Delhi: The air Indians breathe is turning more toxic by the day and an average of two deaths take place daily due to air pollution, says a new study. According to medical journal The Lancet, over a million Indians die every year due to air pollution and some of the worst polluted cities of […]
By Susan Bird – CARE2: Air Pollution May Be Causing 20 Percent of Alzheimer’s and Dementia Cases
It seems that air pollution isn’t simply a threat to your lungs – it’s a threat to your cognitive function as well. If you’re an older woman and you live in an area with significant air pollution, you have a high risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia. In fact, your risk […]
By John Vidal, The Guardian: Air pollution in Africa may become worse than it is in China and India
Africa’s air pollution is causing more premature deaths than unsafe water or childhood malnutrition, and could develop into a health and climate crisis reminiscent of those seen in China and India, a study by a global policy forum has found. The first major attempt to calculate both the human and financial cost of the continent’s […]