Air Pollution Articles

The Province - The figures are part of an air-emissions inventory being assembled by Metro Vancouver to identify sources of air pollution across the Lower Fraser Valley airshed, including Whatcom County in the U.S. In 2000, the inventory -- which did not show a ...

MSNBC - In addition, in air pollution experiments using 6-inch (15-centimeter) modified poplars in sealed containers, the plants were better at taking up gaseous trichloroethylene and benzene, a pollutant associated with petroleum. "It is the first time that ...

Taipei Times - Air pollution remains a major concern ahead of next August's Beijing Olympics, the UN said yesterday, while generally giving the city high marks for its efforts to ensure the event will be environmentally sound. International Olympic Committee (IOC ...

Seattle Post Intelligencer - DENVER -- Regulators said Thursday that tougher air pollution rules for Colorado's booming oil and gas industry appear to be making a difference, even though part of the Front Range likely will be found in violation of federal ozone standards anyway ...

DAWN Group - NEW YORK, Oct 20: A smog-filled sky can make it hard to breathe, but air pollution in the home may also be hard on people with lung disease, researchers have found. In a study of 148 adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD ...

News.com.au - BEIJING'S weather office warned children and the elderly to stay indoors today as heavy fog blanketed the host city of the 2008 Olympics, exacerbating its chronic air pollution, Chinese state media reported. Fog caused severe delays at Beijing ...

Brattleboro Reformer - WILMINGTON -- Hearing little disagreement, the administration of Twin Valley High School will begin taking its next step toward making the building a place where students and staff can breathe easier. A couple of years ago, the school started a ...

KXTV News10Net - DAVIS (AP) -- Researchers at the University of California, Davis say infants' lungs are more vulnerable to certain air pollution particles than was previously believed. The study released last week shows a link between bronchitis in infants and ...

ZDNet Blogs - Posted by Harry Fuller @ 8:22 am Categories: Blogroll , green tech , renewable energy , energy , air pollution , venture capital , ... Something stinks. And in parts of Iowa the locals can tell you exactly what it is. It’s the huge concentration ...

Edmonton Sun - The rapid industrialization and use of coal is blamed for toxic air pollution that accounts for more than 400,000 deaths a year. The rate of lung cancer had increased by 33% in the last five years. And, in another recently released statistic, every ...