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Original Technorati articles tagged “pollution”

• in Lifestyle
  Passive Smoking: Anti-Smoking Legislation
  Smoking in cars with children on board
  by ethelsmith / on Feb 6, 2012
• in Film
  The Last Mountain Is Now on DVD
  Controversial documentary THE LAST MOUNTAIN is now available on DVD.
  by missbobetier / on Oct 31, 2011
• in Green
  Millions of Tons of Tsunami Refuse Could Reach U.S. Coast
  Millions of tons of tsunami debris is crossing the Pacific Ocean and will be arriving on US Shores in 2014
  by goldnugget / on Oct 25, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “pollution”

 

• The Future of Trucking is Electric

  
  CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.com — Authority: 529
  Trucking has become the most common mode for transporting goods across the land. However, all those trucks on the road burning diesel fuel can create a great deal of air pollution. Plus, higher gas prices cause increases in the prices of goods. Now is the time to consider the next era of trucking, the electric truck. ...
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• Why Does Australia Need the Smart Meter Campaign?

  
  frontlineartist.com — Authority: 116
  Australia is one of the countries, if not the leading country, that contributes immensely to greenhouse pollution. This is due to the coal industry that is very much in effect in the country, as well as coal-fired energy stations. As a result, the government and the country’s industry sector have joined forces to ...
  13 hours ago

• The Hidden Danger of the Gas Boom

  
  Oil Change — Authority: 481
  The hype surrounding the US gas industry continues to grow as America moves ever closer to its cherished dream of energy independence. Yesterday, Bloomberg reported that “the U.S. is the closest it has been in almost 20 years to achieving energy self-sufficiency, a goal the nation has been pursuing since the ...
  13 hours ago

• Shipping noise causes major stress in whales

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 163
  Shipping noise causes chronic stress to whales, a landmark study has concluded.
  14 hours ago

• Environmental reappraisal required for railway design modifications

  
  Eco-Friendly Tips — Authority: 126
  Chinas railway project builders have been told to reappraise and renew their environmental approvals to account for major design modifications designed to speed up the trains.
  1 day ago

• Defra to issue new guidelines for building on polluted land – The Guardian

  
  Current Awareness — Authority: 135
  “Building on land contaminated by industrial pollution or even asbestos will be made easier after government regulations are published today, experts claim.” Full story The Guardian, 7th February 2012 Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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• Ask Umbra: Where do chemical-sucking plants go to die?

  
  Grist — Authority: 724
  By Ask Umbra Send your question to Umbra! Q. Dear Umbra, So cacti can remove selenium from soil . I’ve read in the past about different plants being able to “sop up” various nasty chemicals. My question is this: Then what? Are they to be harvested and dumped somewhere, so contaminating another ...
  2 days ago

• Air Pollution Levels in China

  
  Legal Planet: Environmental Law and Policy — Authority: 414
  The Economist commissioned a study of particulate pollution in China, using estimates based on satellite data.  The results are predictably grim: World Health Organisation guidelines suggest that PM2.5 levels above ten micrograms per cubic metre are unsafe. The boffins have found (as the map shows) that almost ...
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• OGONI HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH BUREAU INAUGURATED

  
  Royal Dutch Shell plc .com — Authority: 121
  
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• Enforce noise laws during polls, Prithviraj Chavan urged

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 506
  Mumbai, Feb 4 (IANS) A day after the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) threatened to hold election campaign rallies on Mumbai’s streets, an organization working in the pollution field Saturday urged Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan to ensure that noise pollution laws were not violated.Awaaz Foundation convenor and ...
  4 days ago

• Op Ed: Why Zaha Hadid Should Green the Central Bank of Iraq Headquarters

  
  Green Prophet — Authority: 531
  It’s official: Zaha Hadid is going to design the new Central Bank of Iraq’s Headquarters; Tafline argues that it should be green. Zaha Hadid is widely celebrated for her incredible, untethered design, but less so for her environmental sensibilities . So when we learned that the deal to design a major project ...
  4 days ago

• Monitoring Air Pollution Levels in a Community

  
  Cup of Cha — Authority: 113
  There are few ways to monitor air pollution levels in specific areas. The best way to tell if the air quality is improving is to track it. Monitoring reports can accurately tell how much and what types of contaminants are present in our surroundings. These reports are available at state, EPA, tribal or local pollution ...
  4 days ago

• Composition and fate of gas and oil released to the water column during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, abstract, edited)

  
  A TIME'S MEMORY — Authority: 434
  [Source: Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, full text: ( LINK ). Abstract, edited.] Composition and fate of gas and oil released to the water column during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill [Environmental Sciences] Reddy, C. M., Arey, J. S., Seewald, J. S., Sylva, S. P., Lemkau, K. L., Nelson, R. K., Carmichael, C. A., ...
  4 days ago

• World Briefing | The Americas: Ecuador: Chevron Will Not Apologize for Pollution, Even to Save $8.5 Billion

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 166
  http://www.nytimes.com/ World Briefing | The Americas: Ecuador: Chevron Will Not Apologize for Pollution, Even to Save $8.5 Billion Chevron said Friday that it had no intention of apologizing for the environmental damage to the Amazon rain forest for which an Ecuadorean court ruled it responsible. ...
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• Chinas pollution

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 621
  Economist - "PM2.5” refers to the smallest solid particles in the atmosphere—those less than 2.5 microns across. Such dust can get deep into people’s lungs; far deeper than that rated as PM10 (10 micron particles). Having 50 microns per cubic meter means hospitalizations go up 4% for strokes and 6% for heart ...
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• Bukom fully operational, no force majeure

  
  wildsingapore news — Authority: 503
  Shells books US$200m loss in Q4 as result of September fire; posts net profit of US$6.5bRonnie Lim Business Times 4 Feb 12;SHELLS Bukom refinery complex is fully operational again, and it has lifted all earlier force majeures it enforced on supplies of some products to customers, company officials said in London ...
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• Innovations in Light

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 475
  The bottle bulb may be the coolest idea I’ve ever seen People often write to Fixes telling us of cool new devices made for the poor:  the sOccket soccer ball that stores energy as children kick it; the neoprene LifeWrap that hospitals can use to save women hemorrhaging in childbirth; adjustable eyeglasses.We love ...
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• Kufr ad-Dik and Burqin march against boars, pollution, and violence by Israelis

  
  International Solidarity Movement — Authority: 464
  by Jonas Weber 3 February 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Burqin and Kufr Ad-Dik face daily obstructions in justice as nearby illegal Zionist settlements encroach on the livelihood of local Palestinians. The villages are surrounded by several hilltop illegal settlements and industrial sites ...
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• Austin Peay State University professor awarded $75K state grant to study health of Red River Watershed

  
  Clarksville, TN Online — Authority: 510
  Clarksville, TN - On a spring afternoon in 2010, Dr. Jeff Lebkuecher, professor of biology at Austin Peay State University, waded into a creek to collect algae floating in the water and growing on rocks.The samples were placed in test tubes, and back in his lab inside the APSU Sundquist Science Complex, Lebkuecher ...
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• Outfall No. 001

  
  Citynoise.org Latest Articles — Authority: 113
  Posted in: New York, NY by Peter . I found CSO #1! More information here ...NYS Permitted Discharge PointSPDES Permit No.: NY0005126 Outfall No.: 001For information about this permitted discharge contact:Consolidated Edison of New YorkPermittee Contact: Shift SupervisorPermittee Phone: (212) 614-3600Or: NYSDEC ...
  5 days ago

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