Pollution news, articles and information:
 | 11/8/2016 - It doesn't seem to make much sense, telling bicyclists not to pedal as quickly because it's not healthy for them. Peddling more quickly, you might think, would lead to better conditioning – right?
Perhaps, but according to new research, that isn't the point, per se. Thank air pollution for...
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 | 11/3/2016 - Dirty air ,mostly from the world's developing economies, is killing hundreds of thousands of children every year while putting hundreds of millions more at risk, a recently released report by UNICEF discovered.
NPR is reporting that the UNICEF document is based, in large part, on data gathered via...
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 | 10/19/2016 - While it's true that Americans have been afforded the luxury of living in a modern day world, our natural resources, the fundamentals upon which human life began, continue to be destroyed and depleted. One must ask which is more important: convenience or sustainability?
The so-called innovations...
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 | 10/8/2016 - While some regard ethanol as a cleaner, safer and more environmentally friendly biofuel than gasoline, critics say its effect is as bad or even worse for nature than regular oil, as concluded in a report by Malaysia's The Star.
New research regarding the so-called eco-friendly fuel came as a surprise...
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 | 10/3/2016 - The World Health Organization has released a new report that indicates that some 92 percent of the world's population is living in an area where air pollution exceeds the WHO's limits. This means that the majority of people reside in a place where just breathing the air can make you sick and increase...
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 | 9/14/2016 - One could naturally assume that electronic and computer parts and equipment would be a "clean" industry. Usually, there are no toxic smoke plumes or other obvious signs of pollution. Yet, more and more areas are discovering that electronic and computer industries are not so clean.
Citizens in the...
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 | 9/3/2016 - The new executive director of the UN Environment Program (UNEP), Erik Solheim, recently laid out key issues that are currently facing the international community. One of these issues includes the pollution crisis, which is having disastrous effects worldwide.
Solheim told reporters in Geneva that...
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 | 8/24/2016 - Since the beginning of this year, nearly thirty sperm whales washed up on the North Sea coast. Of these stranded animals, thirteen were found on a beach near the town of Toenning in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. An autopsy of these thirteen whales left scientists deeply disturbed.
The animals' stomachs...
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 | 7/2/2016 - As a kid, how many times did your parents tell you to go play outside and get some fresh air? Or maybe that's exactly what you said to your kids yesterday. While keeping them indoors in front of TV screens will definitely not improve their health and well-being, depending on where you live, exposing...
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 | 7/1/2016 - The Maine Department of Marine Resources has nearly doubled the size of an area closed to lobster and crab fishing after tests revealed high levels of mercury in lobsters caught outside the former closure area.
"We are adding this very small, targeted area to the closure so consumers can continue...
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 | 6/9/2016 - I always find it amusing when the world's top mainstream science journals follow and repeat the same things I said years ago. In this latest case, the globally recognized science journal NATURE has published a warning about runaway genetic pollution that almost exactly mirrors my own published warning...
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 | 6/5/2016 - It's every expectant mother's worst nightmare: successfully getting through nine months of pregnancy only to suffer a stillbirth at the end. Most pregnant women do everything possible to avoid putting their baby in harm's way, from making dietary changes to avoiding risky activities. However, few women...
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 | 6/4/2016 - Living within 3 miles of a landfill significantly increases the risk of developing lung cancer and other serious lung diseases, according to a recent study.
A team of researchers in Italy conducted the study, which involved nearly 250,000 subjects living within 3 miles of landfills, whose health...
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 | 5/30/2016 - The controversial practice of fracking has now been proven to increase the risk of lung and heart disease in children, as reported by Truth Out. Researchers already believe that it leaves American rivers tainted with a toxic cocktail of radium and lead, but this latest study – published in the...
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 | 5/10/2016 - A fantastic new invention by Dutch engineers might hold the key to reducing air pollution, as reported by AnonHQ.com. Dan Roosegaarde is a Dutch designer who has been working on "The Smog Free Project" – which is an attempt at reducing air pollution by building the world's largest smog vacuum...
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 | 2/23/2016 - As we become conscious of our health decisions, we often focus solely on what we are putting in our bodies. The connection between what we eat and drink and how it affects our health has long been established. As the father of medicine Hippocrates once said, "Let food be your medicine, and medicine...
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| 2/19/2016 - It's a well-known fact that air pollution is a major problem in China – millions of Chinese citizens die each year from pollution-related health problems – but respiratory ailments are not the only problems caused by the unrelenting smog.
A recent report revealed that air pollution in...
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 | 8/20/2015 - As if fracking, or unconventional gas drilling (UGD), is not already steeped in environmental and economic controversy, another problem has developed that points to its detrimental consequences. Sadly, it directly impacts people who are helpless and voiceless in the matter; innocent babies born in fracking...
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 | 8/12/2015 - The incompetence of big government never ceases to amaze me. The EPA -- now known as the "Environmental POLLUTION Agency" -- recently managed to spill 3 million gallons of toxic sludge into the Animas River. The actual composition of that toxic sludge is being kept a secret by the EPA, which is why...
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 | 7/3/2015 - The health danger of 'electrical pollution' is grossly misunderstood by Western medicine. But, for those suffering with the ill effects of electromagnetic frequency (EMF) exposure – this is no laughing matter. If you're suffering with chronic fatigue, headaches, insomnia, autoimmune disorders...
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 | 6/18/2015 - Earthworms in New England forests are absorbing heavy metal pollution, thereby poisoning the animals that feed on them, according to a study conducted by researchers from Dartmouth College and the University of Vermont, and published in the journal Soil Biology and Biochemistry.
This phenomenon may...
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 | 5/31/2015 - Metropolitan cities continue to swell across the U.S. as millions flock to densely populated regions seeking employment and hoping for a better quality of life. As urban life continues to grow more popular (especially in the New York metropolitan area), so does the risk of developing various diseases...
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 | 4/29/2015 - That toxic, smoggy air can harm physical health is nothing new or surprising. It has repeatedly been linked to chronic inflammation and an increased risk of cardiovascular diseases and cancer. New studies, however, suggest that air pollution negatively impacts not only our physical health but mental...
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 | 4/27/2015 - Driving an electric vehicle may not be as green as you might think, especially if you're living in a region that produces most of its electricity by burning coal, according to new research presented by Christopher Kennedy, Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Toronto.
A new study called...
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 | 4/20/2015 - There are no trees along most of the sidewalks in the city of Turin, Italy. But if you walk by 25 Verde in Turin you will find a small forest built into a new five-story apartment building. The 150 trees are built in large pots on custom-shaped terraces.
"If the trees are integrated in the building,...
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 | 4/1/2015 11:19:50 AM - Many people in the United States lament that everything comes from China and now according to a paper released last week, so does a portion of the Western United States air pollution. Heavy emissions from industrial China is blown across the Pacific Ocean and ends up in California and neighboring states....
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 | 3/27/2015 - Living or working in a high-traffic environment does more than make people want to plug their ears or noses; aside from loud highway or airport sounds or the smells of fumes, another detrimental problem has been discovered. Sadly, the problem is a concern for school-age children who may find that traffic-related...
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 | 3/9/2015 - Abandoning the use of plastic in clothing, as well as a number of other consumer products, may be the key to reducing environmental pollution caused by microscopic bits of plastic, according to a report by the Chicago Tribune.
Similar to the way plastic waste is polluting our oceans, tiny microscopic...
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| 2/18/2015 - What may appear to foreigners as a city swathed in fog on a cold rainy day is really a Chinese city smothered in smog, a type of air pollution so dangerous that some officials refer to the city as "unliveable," The Guardian reports.
Over recent years, China's air pollution has grown increasingly...
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 | 1/11/2015 - While nitrates are expected in agricultural farming -- anywhere pesticides and fertilizers are used, they are absorbed into the roots of the foods being grown -- excessive amounts of them can reach toxic levels in the water system. The problematic situation has been looked into; however, slow-moving...
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| 12/20/2014 - After many days without rain in densely populated places like Los Angeles and New York City, it is sometimes possible to catch a small glimpse of what is an everyday reality for Beijing, China's 20-some million residents -- thick blankets of blackish smog that penetrate the air and fill the lungs of...
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 | 12/17/2014 - Just two hours on a busy city street is enough to cause damage to your lungs and arteries, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust in the United Kingdom.
The findings came just weeks after the European Court of Justice ruled that air...
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 | 12/4/2014 - The drought in California has unfortunately become a way of life for the majority of its residents, with many of them resorting to showering in portable stalls located in parking lots and getting on board with drinking recycled sewage water.
The latter specifically pertains to San Diego, where a...
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 | 11/16/2014 - The Mediterranean Diet has received plenty of praise in recent years for its role in protecting against disease. And two new studies provide further clarity as to why this is the case, having found that the olive oil component of the popular diet helps to not only protect against the damaging effects...
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 | 11/12/2014 - Women who live near major roads are significantly more likely to die from sudden cardiac death, according to a study conducted by researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School and published in the journal Circulation. The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health...
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 | 10/29/2014 - Runoff from urban and agricultural pollution in Hawaii appears to be causing tumors that are the main cause of death for endangered green sea turtles, according to a study conducted by researchers from Duke University, the University of Hawaii and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...
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 | 10/1/2014 - Rising carbon dioxide emissions generated by vehicles has contributed to an epidemic that's resulted in widespread sickness and death across the U.S.
America isn't the only nation suffering; cities all over the world are experiencing decreased air quality due to pollution, causing many people to...
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 | 9/24/2014 - Next time you feel like hailing a cab, you might want to stop and consider the results of a recent study before deciding whether or not it's worth risking your health.
It turns out that riding through the city in a car exposes you to air pollution levels 15 times greater than walking or riding a...
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 | 8/2/2014 - Trees are naturally helping to save hundreds of lives per year. In fact, in the first broad-scale approximation of its kind, researchers have estimated that trees save over 850 lives per year. Not only that, but they also can help reduce and prevent more than 670,000 cases of severe respiratory symptoms...
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 | 8/1/2014 - A new space telescope scheduled to launch in 2018 may be able to look for signs of pollution caused by advanced alien civilizations, according to a paper by researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics published in the Astrophysical Journal.
Looking for evidence of pollution may...
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 | 7/5/2014 - A new smart phone app was recently developed to enable anyone to not only view complete air quality readings but directly determine air pollution culprits. Surprisingly, it was developed in China for Chinese citizens. And it doesn't target cars and wood- or coal-burning chimneys; it targets industrial...
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 | 5/27/2014 - Cities in China are quickly becoming toxic waste sites, emitting so much pollution now that people have to walk around with filters over their face. Even the bright blue skies above these highly polluted cities can't disperse the smog. One man has even proposed selling jarred French mountain air to...
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 | 5/9/2014 - When it comes to optimal health, eating fresh, organic foods and staying mentally and physically active is essential. However, according to studies conducted by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the European Commission's Joint Research Centre, silence is also the key to good health.
The findings...
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 | 5/6/2014 - As China continues to industrialize its way out of oppressive communism, the nation's children and babies are paying the price with their health. A new study out of the University of South Carolina has found that pollution in developing countries like China and India is becoming so severe that many...
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 | 4/19/2014 - A series of photographs published recently on the Chinese Twitter-like microblog service Weibo has shown scores of demonstrators marching along streets, an overturned car ablaze and protesters lying bloodied along the road, while still others showed paramilitary police marching in formation.
According...
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 | 4/18/2014 - Air pollution is not just unsightly or inconvenient; it can be lethal. As a matter of fact, the WHO (World Health Organization) has reported that 7 million deaths are attributed to air pollution annually, with 40% of those coming from China. Of course, air pollution exists to lesser degrees here too....
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 | 4/15/2014 8:12:00 PM - The growth of the Chinese economy, while slipping a bit in the first quarter of 2014, is still quadruple that of the United States, as the Asian giant continues its industrial rise.
But China's dramatic growth in production has come at a cost: Its major cities are choked with fumes and exhaust, soil...
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 | 4/9/2014 - Heavy metal poisoning appears to be a primary driver of autism, according to a new study published in the journal PLOS Computational Biology. Researchers from the University of Chicago found that environmental pollution, and particularly mercury and mercury-containing compounds, may be responsible for...
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 | 4/4/2014 - In the quest for energy and increased production, mankind has sabotaged himself, destroying the very air he breathes. Nature's clean, sustainable, free energy sources have been bypassed, as industry empires rise up, shooting pollution from their stacks and skyscraper pipes.
Air quality is often taken...
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 | 3/31/2014 - The World Health Organization (WHO) recently released a report citing that air pollution was the cause for over 7 million heart disease, respiratory disease, and cancer-related deaths in 2012, one-third of which were from developing Asian countries. Shockingly, the number is up significantly from just...
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 | 3/26/2014 - Exposure to cell phone towers alters brain function in alarming ways, causing a lack of concentration, irritability, difficulty sleeping and lack of appetite. That's the conclusion of a new study just published by the British Medical Journal.(1)
The study, authored by Professor Enrique A Navarro,...
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| 3/18/2014 - A few studies published in 2013 have revealed various environmental factors which increase asthma risk as well as elevate the severity of its symptoms. These included exposure to traffic pollution, wood smoke, cleaning chemicals, as well as other materials at the workplace.
Diesel exhaust particles...
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 | 3/16/2014 - Gold is very chemically non-reactive, as a general rule, which can make it difficult to separate out from the other metals that it naturally occurs with. However, gold readily forms an amalgam with mercury, and this amalgam can be easily separated back into its two component parts. Although there are...
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 | 3/14/2014 - Air pollution from China's coal-fired power plants regularly crosses the Pacific Ocean to contaminate the air, soil and water of the United States, studies have shown.
Appropriately, a significant proportion of this pollution is generated by industries that produce products for export to the West...
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 | 2/27/2014 - Beijing and six surrounding Chinese provinces are being suffocated by horrendous bouts of pollution, as millions choke on one of the most dangerous outbreaks of smog ever to settle over the region.
The cloudy swath of choking smog has lasted for several days, prompting a spike in hospital visits....
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 | 2/26/2014 - China continues to sing the environmental blues, with air pollution levels in the capital city of Beijing now so high that they exceed the World Health Organization's (WHO) recommended safety level by nearly eight-fold. Bloomberg reports that recent air samples taken by Beijing's Municipal Environmental...
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| 2/26/2014 - China continues to sing the environmental blues, with air pollution levels in the capital city of Beijing now so high that they exceed the World Health Organization's (WHO) recommended safety level by nearly eight-fold. Bloomberg reports that recent air samples taken by Beijing's Municipal Environmental...
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| 2/26/2014 - China continues to sing the environmental blues, with air pollution levels in the capital city of Beijing now so high that they exceed the World Health Organization's (WHO) recommended safety level by nearly eight-fold. Bloomberg reports that recent air samples taken by Beijing's Municipal Environmental...
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 | 1/28/2014 - China is the world's worst industrial polluter, spewing tons of toxins derived from man-made production into the air, soil and water at a steady rate. It has refused to comply with the same standards adopted by other leading nations of the world.
And the level of pollutants is starting to catch up...
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| 10/23/2013 - China and India combined have more coal-burning energy plants than the rest of the world, and China has more than India. Japanese scientists are openly complaining that the almost 13,000 foot Mt. Fuji is coated with toxic mercury from China's coal burning plants.
Some Chinese scientists have challenged...
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| 8/28/2013 - Vitamin C is one of the most important antioxidants on Earth, and its ability to aid tissue growth and repair is well-known. However, British researchers at the Imperial College of London have found another good reason to eat more oranges and lemons - vitamin C can also guard us against the negative...
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 | 8/20/2013 - Anger is erupting in once sleepy villages, and ordinary people are coming together from all over the UK with the dawning realisation that their green and pleasant land is under threat of long lasting contamination by the government's proposed shale gas 'revolution'.
A Green MP was one of dozens of...
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 | 6/6/2013 - As heart disease marches on as the leading killer of Americans and those in western societies, researchers isolate yet another factor to be implicated in the advancement of this largely preventable disease. Poor diet, lack of physical activity, smoking and environmental and household pollutants all...
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 | 6/5/2013 - The next wave of farmer backlash against Monsanto has just been unleashed by Ernest Barnes, a wheat farmer in Morton County, Kansas. He filed suit this week in the U.S. District Court in Wichita, Kansas, alleging that Monsanto's genetic pollution has financially damaged himself and other farmers.
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 | 5/31/2013 - It has already begun: Japan has just cancelled a large contract to purchase U.S. wheat. "We will refrain from buying western white and feed wheat effective today," Toru Hisadome, a Japanese farm ministry official in charge of wheat trading, told Reuters.
As many readers well know, I predicted precisely...
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 | 5/30/2013 - The genetic apocalypse we've been warning about for years may have already begun. The USDA just announced they found a significant amount of genetically engineered wheat growing in farm fields in Oregon. As the USDA announced yesterday, "...test results of plant samples from an Oregon farm indicate...
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 | 3/1/2013 - The observations of some political commentators are much more insightful than most others, and that is certainly true of Dr. Paul Craig Roberts.
An economist, academician, former nationally syndicated columnist, one-time Reagan administration Treasury official and current president of the Institute...
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 | 2/23/2013 - On the heels of my own publication of articles questioning the integrity of "certified organic" when it comes to foods and superfoods produced in mainland China, a blockbuster report from China's own environmental ministry slams another exclamation mark on the severity of the problem. For the first...
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 | 2/21/2013 - When it comes to foods, superfoods and even nutritional supplements from China, "organic" is largely a hoax. This is my opinion, of course, but I've been researching the issue quite extensively as the key decision maker for new products in the Natural News Store. And I've come to the conclusion that...
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 | 12/8/2012 - Even a small decrease in air pollution can lead to significant increases in life expectancy, according to a study conducted by researchers from Harvard University and published in the journal Epidemiology.
"Despite the fact that the U.S. population as a whole is exposed to much lower levels of air...
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 | 12/7/2012 - Exposure to air pollution in utero or during the first year of life may double a person's risk of developing autism, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Southern California (USC) and Children's Hospital Los Angeles.
"This work has broad potential public health implications,"...
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 | 6/27/2012 - Eighty-seven percent of all mercury falling on the United States comes from outside the country. Two thirds of worldwide mercury contamination comes from industrial pollution from Asia as mercury in the air settles into lakes, streams, and oceans. There is a global reservoir of airborne mercury circulating...
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| 3/10/2012 - Though set to become the world leader in manufacturing within the next few years, China has one of the worst track records for rampant environmental pollution with industrial materials and chemicals. And a recent report out of the town of Dongtang, which is located in China's major manufacturing region...
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 | 12/5/2011 - The Blacksmith Institute (BI), an international non-profit environmental health organization devoted to solving pollution problems around the world, in conjunction with Green Cross Switzerland (GCS), a group that helps clean up pollution, recently co-released a comprehensive report entitled The World's...
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 | 7/13/2011 - No one likes breathing polluted air. Exhaust fumes and particulate matter hanging in the air can make you cough and give you a headache. As NaturalNews has reported previously, it can harm your health in ways that aren't so obvious, as well. For example, Ohio
State University researchers have found...
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 | 1/28/2011 - After months of pretending to review public feedback on the issue of GE alfalfa, the USDA has announced a surprise lifting of all restrictions on the genetically engineered crop, effectively allowing anyone to plant GE alfalfa anywhere, without any restriction. This is the USDA's surrender to Monsanto,...
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| 9/24/2010 - Exposure to urban pollution may be a cause of high blood pressure, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Dusiburg-Essen in Germany and presented at a meeting of the American Thoracic Society.
"Our results show that living in areas with higher levels of particle air...
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 | 6/10/2010 - Most people are familiar with type-1 diabetes and type-2 diabetes, but did you know researchers have discovered a third type of diabetes? Type-3 diabetes, as they are calling it, affects people who are extra sensitive to electrical devices that emit "dirty" electricity.
Type-3 diabetics actually...
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| 5/17/2010 - The American Lung Association recently released its 2010 State of the Air report, which includes an outline of the ten worst U.S. cities for ozone pollution. Car exhaust fumes, chemical plant pollution, and residue from industrial boilers and refineries are some of the many contaminants included in...
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| 2/5/2010 - Exposure to air pollution in the womb can significantly reduce a child's IQ, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Mailman School of Public Health in New York and published in the journal Pediatrics.
The researchers conducted the experiment on pregnant, non-smoking black and Dominican...
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| 1/25/2010 - According to the EPA, air pollution indoors is often two to five times worse than it is outside. In extreme cases, air pollution inside can be a hundred times worse than outside. The reason is partly because numerous chemicals, like cleaning supplies, hair sprays and perfumes, are used inside the home....
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| 12/26/2009 - Large shipping vessels have become commonplace in today's global marketplace as goods are imported and exported across the world. While the high levels of pollution they create are something that most people don't think too much about, some scientists are beginning to evaluate their environmental effect....
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| 12/20/2009 - Scientists are finally making inroads into understanding the effect that aerosol particulate matter is having on the way storm clouds form. Recent research has revealed that the tiny pollutants can either inhibit thunderstorms or make them stronger depending on wind shear conditions.
Wind shear occurs...
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| 9/4/2009 - Planning on starting a family? Determined to provide the healthiest environment possible for your kids? If you live in an urban environment, you might want to look for a new place to live with cleaner air. City pollution has long been known to contribute to high blood pressure (https://www.naturalnews.com/024110_pollution_air_pollution_health.html),...
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| 7/24/2009 - When many doctors downplay the role of toxicity in the body and underestimate the damage it causes, it's nice to see research pointing to these effects. Researchers recently found that mothers who breathe in more polluted air during their pregnancy were more apt to have children with lower IQs.
Two...
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| 7/1/2009 - According to the latest estimates from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), people who live around larger cities face an increased risk of developing cancer.
The report National-Scale Air Toxics Assessment (NATA) is based on the air pollution data from 2002. It is meant to help federal, state,...
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| 6/5/2009 - The most alarming piece of news this week emerged when investigators of the doomed Air France flight 447 announced they had found "floating debris" from the plane crash, but it turned out to be only floating trash in the ocean. This is, all by itself, a disturbing commentary on the pollution of the...
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| 5/10/2009 - Prenatal exposure to air pollution appears to cause genetic changes that predispose unborn infants to asthma later in life, according to a new study conducted by researchers from the Center for Environmental Genetics a the University of Cincinnati and published in the journal PLoS ONE.
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| 3/6/2009 - Asthma rates in developed nations are soaring, and it is extremely clear that environmental pollution has a big part to play in the increase. A study recently published in the journal PLoS ONE has revealed that traffic pollution could cause genetic changes in a pregnant woman's womb, raising her child's...
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| 3/5/2009 - Indoor air pollution is arguably one of the most overlooked threats to human health, particularly affecting young children who spend an estimated 80% of their time indoors. Studies released in the past few years demonstrate clearly that poor indoor air quality not only increases asthma symptoms but...
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| 2/19/2009 - Oxygen is the single most important nutrient for our survival and wellbeing. While a healthy human being can go for weeks or even months without food, or last several days without water, cut off his or her air supply, and the person is unlikely to make it past a few minutes, if not seconds. It is then...
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| 2/5/2009 - A study recently conducted in Germany has found that people who lived near traffic had a higher chance of developing atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), which in turn increases the risk of heart disease.
Details and Findings of Study
The study team, led by Dr Barbara Hoffman, who also...
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 | 11/9/2008 - Do you believe in the Tooth Fairy and Santa Clause? Are they real people flying around performing magical deeds? Hopefully you don't believe this. Yes, they are fun stories, "something to believe in," when you are a child; or possibly they are spirits or energy forms. But they do not exist in flesh...
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 | 11/4/2008 - It would be natural to think that microscopic particles in polluted air would do damage to one's lungs, nose and throat. However, recent research published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association has reported that such particles can in fact negatively affect the ability of the heart...
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 | 11/1/2008 - 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 of Epidemiology in Munich, and published in the American Journal...
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 | 10/20/2008 - If you have ever lived or worked somewhere that was noisy, you know that it can have a seriously negative impact on your life. While we move ahead with our technological society, there are all sorts of pollution that we didn't have to deal with 50 years, and it is increasingly getting worse. Flights,...
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 | 10/17/2008 - 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 as a consequence of car exhaust, are binding with the volatile...
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 | 9/9/2008 - It seems like a healthy thing to do: getting outside. Maybe you like to go for walks or spend an hour gardening or riding your bike. Unfortunately, if you live where the air is polluted, you could be hurting your health by simply breathing the not-so-fresh air.
That's the conclusion of a new Ohio...
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 | 9/7/2008 - 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 in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
"We have known for...
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 | 9/6/2008 - 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 believed by the state to die each year.
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 | 8/3/2008 - New evidence blames traffic-related pollution for increasing the risk of allergy and atopic diseases among children by more than fifty percent. What's more, the closer the children live to roads, the higher their risk.
"[Children] living very close to a major road are likely to be exposed not only...
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 | 4/16/2008 - We have all wondered what was happening to the honey bees. Now, from recent research by the University of Virginia, we have an answer.
Air pollution from power plants and automobiles is destroying the fragrance of flowers and thereby inhibiting the ability of pollinating insects to follow scent trails...
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| 2/18/2008 - A study by researchers at Queensland University in Brisbane, Australia warns that women exposed to air pollution in urban areas during pregnancy have smaller fetuses than those in areas with cleaner air. This is the first study to show that air pollution affects fetal development.
The air pollution...
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 | 11/5/2007 - 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 contained in LDL cholesterol create free radicals in the body....
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 | 5/23/2007 - 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 Great Britain and published in the journal "BMC Public Health."
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 | 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, according to a study published in the "Proceedings...
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 | 2/8/2007 - 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 has the same effects on men. However, women are...
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 | 12/13/2006 - 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 Resources Committee of the National People's Congress -- said...
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 | 10/6/2006 - 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 environment urged worldwide nations to adopt strict air pollution...
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| 9/22/2006 - Ground-level ozone pollution — a summertime problem in many urban areas — also may contribute to a previously unrecognized form of indoor air pollution, scientists are reporting.
Ozone seeps indoors from the outdoor air. Ozone...
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| 9/15/2006 - Test results with laboratory mice show a direct cause-and-effect link between exposure to fine particle air pollution and the development of atherosclerosis, commonly known as hardening of the arteries. Mice that were fed a high-fat diet and exposed to air with fine particles had 1.5 times more plaque...
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| 9/13/2006 - New York University School of Medicine researchers provide some of the most compelling evidence yet that long-term exposure to air pollution—even at levels within federal standards—causes heart disease. Previous studies have linked air pollution to cardiovascular disease but until now it was poorly...
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| 9/7/2006 - Test results with laboratory mice show a direct cause-and-effect link between exposure to fine particle air pollution and the development of atherosclerosis, commonly known as hardening of the arteries. Mice that were fed a high-fat diet and exposed to air with fine particles had 1.5 times more plaque...
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| 8/11/2006 - Being exposed to fine particle matter air pollution increases a person’s risk for hospital admission for cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, according to a study in the March 8 issue of JAMA.
Numerous studies have shown associations of chronic exposure to airborne particles and increased health...
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