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Beijing engineered the removal of nearly a third of a World Bank report on pollution in China because of concerns that findings on premature deaths c read more »
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MONDAY, July 16 (HealthDay News) -- People who regularly breathe in fumes from heavy traffic are more likely to get the hardening of the arteries tha read more »
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Despite a persistent gray haze, Chinese officials said an exercise that removed more than 1 million private vehicles a day from Beijing's congested read more »
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Fertiliser run-off could be causing an increase in frog deformities in North American lakes, according to a new study.

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When most people think of southern Florida, they conjure up images of Disney World and spring break. Yet further south than Mickey and Daytona Intern read more »
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Endless treaties to cut carbon emissions and halt global warming have failed to turn the tide of pollution. Now scientists want to intervene on a pla read more »
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There were no climate change protesters waiting to jeer as the chief executives and other senior figures of one of the world's biggest industries ga read more »
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The future of humanity has been put at risk by a failure to address environmental problems including climate change, species extinction and a growing read more »
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BEIJING (AFP) - Birth defects in heavily polluted China have increased by nearly 40 percent since 2001, with a deformed baby born every 30 seconds, s read more »
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GENEVA (AFP) - Swiss and Chinese scientists have found that pollution in China's 6,300 kilometre-long (3,915 mile-long) Yangtze river is "enormous read more »
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The world will have to end its growth of carbon emissions within seven years and become mostly free of carbon-emitting technologies in about four dec read more »
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SINGAPORE (AFP) - Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda on Wednesday unveiled a two-billion-dollar aid package to help developing Asian nations fight read more »
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Every year, Puget Sound suffers an oil spill equal to more than half an Exxon Valdez. It just happens drop by drop.

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BEIJING — Every day, monitoring stations across the city measure air pollution to determine if the skies above this national capital can officially b read more »
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The news of environmental traumas assails us from every side -- unseasonal storms, floods, fires, drought, melting ice caps, lost species of river do read more »
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By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent

TROLL STATION, Antarctica, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Atmospheric levels of the main greenhouse gas have set a read more »
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CANBERRA (Reuters) - Climate change will have potentially devastating consequences for human health, outweighing global economic impacts, researchers read more »
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WASHINGTON - Rainfall data from a NASA satellite show that summertime storms in the southeastern United States shed more rainfall midweek than on wee read more »
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