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Showing posts with label Health Destruction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Health Destruction. Show all posts
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Coal's high public health cost: Canadian study. Seattle Post Intelligencer
Sunday, March 17, 2013
***** Report: Human 'Progress' May Be Reversed By Climate Change. CleanTechnica
The Poor and Climate Change
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"Environmental inaction, especially regarding climate change, has the potential to halt or even reverse human development progress.
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The report notes that while climate change
will affect the whole world, the more equatorially located developing
world will experience the worst of it, within the near future anyways.
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
India. What they found ... Coal's True Cost in India: 100000+ Deaths per Year. Energy Collective
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They
note that while there have been comprehensive investigations in the
United States and parts of Europe into the health impacts of particulate
air pollution attributed to coal power plants, similar data is hard to come by in India. What they found ...
The Earth Is Warming Faster Now Than It Has in 11000 Years. Slate Magazine
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Mind you, this is the rate of warming, how quickly the global temperature is increasing. But they also showed the actual temperature of the planet is warmer now than it has been for 70-80 percent of the past over that time period. There have been times ...
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Coal plants kill 120000 people a year: Greenpeace
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India's
breakneck pace of industrialisation is causing a public health crisis
with 80-120,000 premature deaths and 20 million new asthma cases a year
due to air pollution from coal power plants, a Greenpeace report warns.
The first study of the health impact ...
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Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Study: Climate change could devastate U.S. agriculture.
Study: Climate change could devastate U.S. agriculture.
Climate change could have a drastic and
harmful effect on U.S. agriculture, forcing farmers and ranchers to
alter where they grow crops and costing them millions of additional
dollars, a government report said on Tuesday.
Gannett News Service
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Smog Exposure During Pregnancy Tied to Tinier Babies. U.S. News & World
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WEDNESDAY,
Feb. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Pregnant women exposed to particulate air
pollution -- commonly known as smog -- have a significantly greater risk
of having a baby with a low birth weight, according to a large new
international study.
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
NAACP Releases Coal Blooded Report and Toolkit. Clean Energy News
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Coal Blooded systematically studies 378 coal-fired power plants nationwide and evaluates each plant in terms of its environmental justice performance - how the plant affects low-income communities and communities of color. This same type of analysis is ...
Sunday, January 27, 2013
Coal plants top list of mercury emitters
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Environmental Integrity Project officials in their report stated that some coal-burning plants have more work to do on reducing toxins emissions.
Friday, January 18, 2013
Car Exhaust Pollution World’s Fastest Growing Cause Of Death. CleanTechnica
Posted: 14 Jan 2013 07:11 AM PST
A new study has found
that, on top of all the other manner of ways our cars are trying to kill
us, the pollution they emit is now one of the fastest growing causes of
death in the world.
Monday, January 7, 2013
Climate change poses a public-health threat. The Seattle Times
Climate change poses a public-health threat
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The
Dust Bowl foreshadowed what's now the new normal: droughts, heat waves,
severe storms, floods, wild fires - exactly what experts predicted
would occur with advancing climate change. But chaotic weather isn't the only impact of climate change ...
Friday, January 4, 2013
Climate change may bring another mosquito-borne illness to US
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"This is particularly worrisome if we think of the effects of climate change over [average] temperatures in the near future.
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Climate change brings exotic viruses to Europe
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These kinds of exotic viruses are more often entering Europe given the effects of climate change, which is making it a more attractive feeding and breeding ground for these mosquitoes.
Friday, September 28, 2012
In 2010, Death toll from climate change estimated at 400000 Philadelphia Inquirer
In 2010, Death toll from climate change estimated at 400000
Philadelphia Inquirer-52 minutes ago
A report released last week on the human costs of climate change estimates that ... Sadly, climate change denialists are likely to ignore these new findings.
Friday, September 21, 2012
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Climate change threatens children's health Washington Post
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In 2007, the American Academy of Pediatrics published a policy statement titled “Global Climate Change and Children's Health” that described expected increases in West Nile virus, Lyme disease and hantavirus pulmonary syndrome.
Climate change to fuel northern spread of avian malaria Phys.Org
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