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Urban air pollution is set to become the top environmental cause of mortality worldwide by 2050, says a new report by France's Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The worst countries affected will be China and India.
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A U.K. environmental watchdog is claiming that the government is putting the lives of "tens of thousands" at risk by watering down European Union air quality standards instead of tackling the problem directly.
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Smithsonian Institution scientists previously researched the ways humans disrupt the nitrogen cycle in tropical forests; new studies at two remote Panama and Thailand sites have provided evidence of long-term nitrogen pollution effects in tropical trees.
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A recent study states high levels of air pollution, due to heavy traffic, can lead to an increased risk of heart attack for the following six hours.
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An unclassified document published by WikiLeaks reveals that the Chinese government has constantly ignored measuring the level of air pollutants, due to the political consequences of implementing stricter environmental standards.
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Dog fecal matter may be the main source of airborne bacteria in the winter air of Detroit and Cleveland, new University of Colorado Boulder research suggested, without assessing human health impact -- beyond the obvious psychological "yuck-factor" effect.
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Sydney -
From the 1950s through to the late 70s, pollution, particularly air pollution, was a very big issue. It’s now an excuse for the whole ineffectual science of epidemiology to go to sleep and issue soggy press releases about smoking.
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A new report listing the most polluted cities in the US shows that, while improvements in levels of ozone and year-round particle pollution have occurred, more than half of all Americans live in areas with dangerous levels of air pollution.
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In an opinion piece published in the Wall Street Journal on Thursday, former California Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger expressed his emotional affinity for the Clean Air Act.
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Montreal -
Could air pollution be risking women to breast cancer? That was the question posed in a new study by researchers from the Research Institute of the MUHC, McGill University and Université de Montreal.
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Air pollution Headlines
 Breathing air pollutants raises the risk of having a heart attack, a new review suggests.
 The 2008 Summer Olympics Olympics were a powerful laboratory for showing how improvements in air pollution improve cardiovascular health.
Scotland is to become the first part of the UK to offer a pollution alert system which could be incorporated into weather forecasts.
Road pollution is more than twice as deadly as traffic accidents, according to a new study of UK air quality and its impacts.
Cutting air pollution has an instant impact on heart health, experts believe, after reviewing studies of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
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