items tagged with Pollution
What's the state of the air in your city?
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Climate
2009-04-29 08:20:48
The American Lung Association has released its tenth annual State Of The Air Report 2009 for the United States. What might surprise people is that two cities in Utah (whose logo is “Life Elevated”) have elevated pollution levels. Many other cities in many other U.S. states are even worse!
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Climate
2009-04-29 08:20:48
The American Lung Association has released its tenth annual State Of The Air Report 2009 for the United States. What might surprise people is that two cities in Utah (whose logo is “Life Elevated”) have elevated pollution levels. Many other cities in many other U.S. states are even worse!
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Do you blame headaches on the weather? Maybe you're right!
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Health
2009-03-10 08:38:18
If you think the weather causes your headaches, you can now back up your medical claims with a scientific study of U.S. researchers on the relationship between headaches and outside changing temperatures.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Health
2009-03-10 08:38:18
If you think the weather causes your headaches, you can now back up your medical claims with a scientific study of U.S. researchers on the relationship between headaches and outside changing temperatures.
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Aerosols impact Australian weather
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Climate
2009-02-12 09:46:06
According to an Australian atomospheric scientist, aerosols, both naturally and artifically produced, may cause a much more damaging effect on Australian rainfall and future climate change than previously measured. And, most of it is caused by pollution from the Northern Hemisphere.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Climate
2009-02-12 09:46:06
According to an Australian atomospheric scientist, aerosols, both naturally and artifically produced, may cause a much more damaging effect on Australian rainfall and future climate change than previously measured. And, most of it is caused by pollution from the Northern Hemisphere.
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Dirty air may lead to dumb kids
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Health
2008-11-10 08:24:50
A U.S.-Mexico study on air pollution in Mexico City shows that healthy children (dogs, too) got brain inflammation and lesions, which caused them (only the kids) to do worse in school when compared to children in a low air-pollution city, all because of the dirty air.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Health
2008-11-10 08:24:50
A U.S.-Mexico study on air pollution in Mexico City shows that healthy children (dogs, too) got brain inflammation and lesions, which caused them (only the kids) to do worse in school when compared to children in a low air-pollution city, all because of the dirty air.
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Environmental group taps Sam's Choice and Acadia bottled water
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Health
2008-10-16 09:13:48
In the ten bottled water brands tested, thirty-eight different contaminates were found by the public health activist group Environmental Working Group. Two brands (Wal-mart's Sam's Choice and Giant Food's Acadia) violated state and industry standards.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Health
2008-10-16 09:13:48
In the ten bottled water brands tested, thirty-eight different contaminates were found by the public health activist group Environmental Working Group. Two brands (Wal-mart's Sam's Choice and Giant Food's Acadia) violated state and industry standards.
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Chemical belt measured between clean Australia and dirty Southeast Asia
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Climate
2008-10-11 09:07:22
A team of British researchers has measured what they call a “chemical equator” that separates the relatively clean atmosphere of the southern hemisphere from the very dirty skies of the northern hemisphere. They found much more pollution in the hemisphere where most of the people live.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Climate
2008-10-11 09:07:22
A team of British researchers has measured what they call a “chemical equator” that separates the relatively clean atmosphere of the southern hemisphere from the very dirty skies of the northern hemisphere. They found much more pollution in the hemisphere where most of the people live.
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Flat screen TVs: giving the world's climate a roasting?
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Science
Category: Climate
2008-07-03 21:10:47
Is that shiny new LCD or plasma TV in your house a major contributor to global warming? A new research paper is making a shocking claim that's nothing to do with power consumption, but some critics think it's just some outrageous scaremongering and nary but a load of hot air!
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Science
Category: Climate
2008-07-03 21:10:47
Is that shiny new LCD or plasma TV in your house a major contributor to global warming? A new research paper is making a shocking claim that's nothing to do with power consumption, but some critics think it's just some outrageous scaremongering and nary but a load of hot air!
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Computers Off Australia campaign poised to shutdown
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: PC\'s
2008-06-20 02:32:22
Remember Earth Hour? Back in March this year when we switched off all our lights and electrical equipment at home, except the fridge, oh and the Plasma TV because the football was on. Well a new campaign to return some power to the grid is ready to launch. Computers Off Australia wants us to lift our fingers a little at home time.
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Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: PC\'s
2008-06-20 02:32:22
Remember Earth Hour? Back in March this year when we switched off all our lights and electrical equipment at home, except the fridge, oh and the Plasma TV because the football was on. Well a new campaign to return some power to the grid is ready to launch. Computers Off Australia wants us to lift our fingers a little at home time.
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Futuristic MIT City Car is green, stackable, and sharable
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Sustainability
Category: Transport
2008-03-08 16:53:08
Scientists, engineers, and architects at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge) are working on the "City Car," a rechargeable, two-passenger vehicle that promotes socially responsible transportation in heavily populated and pollution congested urban centers.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Sustainability
Category: Transport
2008-03-08 16:53:08
Scientists, engineers, and architects at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge) are working on the "City Car," a rechargeable, two-passenger vehicle that promotes socially responsible transportation in heavily populated and pollution congested urban centers.
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Texas is Big on Pollution
Written By: William Atkins
Section: UNI-verse
Category: The Science Blog
2008-01-20 05:57:58
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), Texas expelled about 670 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in 2003, making it the biggest carbon polluter in the United States. Is that all of the story?
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: UNI-verse
Category: The Science Blog
2008-01-20 05:57:58
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), Texas expelled about 670 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in 2003, making it the biggest carbon polluter in the United States. Is that all of the story?
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