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Particle and nitrous oxide pollution in your car

featured Particle and nitrous oxide pollution in your car

The air seems clear, but the pollution is both invisible and inside your passenger compartment; Traffic image; Credit: © Shutterstock "Counterintuitive," could be the key to the failure of people...

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Ban Ki-moon asks for the earth

Ban Ki-moon asks for the earth

The chance of an angel over New York this September is about equivalent to the chances of Ban Ki-moon achieving success in his climate change mission. The poster here is...

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Air pollution means death in cities

Air pollution means death in cities

In downtown Riga, the particulates have been building as industry and traffic increases, just as in most of the world's great cities; Riga image; Credit: © Shutterstock In Riga, in...

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US lakes have increased threat of toxin

US lakes have increased threat of toxin

The Great Lakes have never been immune to human effects. Lake Erie is one of many water bodies throughout the world that has now succumbed to regular and dangerous cyanobacterial...

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Alberta Tar Sands pollution evidence is devastating

Alberta Tar Sands pollution evidence is devastating

The tailings ponds, the atmosphere, the slash and burn approach to forests are all part of the problem, but what stands out in Northern Alberta is the attitude to local...

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Old King Coal has a Texan hole?

Old King Coal has a Texan hole?

Tell the Australians and the Chinese. Unless we keep the coal seams, the gas and the oil underground, our weather systems are going to be much more changeable. Australians, Asians,...

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Mediterranean demise

Mediterranean demise

Italian, Greek and Middle Eastern ancients polluted that Sea over thousands of years, but since the modern industrial revolution, we have brought it to the brink of destruction; Manarola image;...

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Carbon dioxide's rise and rise

Carbon dioxide's rise and rise

The global warming looks like it will never stop, but those greenhouse gases will have to be reduced in quantity very soon. Next century may be really feeling our pollution...

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Beach Watch

Beach Watch

If you head down to the sea today, this Irish beach seems ideal, with a "Sunbeam" to help you get about - it's the unfortunate boat; Ireland image; Credit: ©...

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City clean up with nanotechnology

City clean up with nanotechnology

The poem, "In Praise of Air," by Sheffield's Simon Armitage is printed on a university building hoarding to emphasise its titanium dioxide coating is absorbing vehicle emissions that cause asthma...

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