Acid Rain Pollution Up 4 Percent in 2003
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Emissions of sulfur dioxide, which causes acid rain, rose 4 percent in 2003, but probably will not compromise long-term air quality goals, the government reported Wednesday.
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Mar. 7--More people moving to North Carolina means more water usage in homes, businesses and industrial plants.
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Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have grown more quickly than expected, say scientists.
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By Dale Williams  A HUGE clean-up operation was mounted in the Black Country after 60 people were evacuated and families warned to keep windows shut following a major acid spill.   A cloud of white fumes floated over part of Tipton at about 8am yesterday.
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BEIJING, Aug. 16 (Xinhuanet) --Brain diseases have been on a steady increase in the past two decades and researchers believe they have found a link between these diseases and the environment.
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The rate at which humans are pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere has more than doubled since the 1990s, according to Australian research, the latest report warning about the high rate of emissions accumulating in the atmosphere.
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Air pollution is killing more than half a million people in Asian cities each year and shows no sign of improving as urban centers expand, studies by the Asian Development Bank show.
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After Southern California experienced a horrible smog season in 2003, its cool, mild summer helped make this the cleanest smog season in 25 years, officials said Thursday.
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By Nancy Oteifa, Kuwait Times  Dec. 13--KUWAIT -- The Minister of Finance Bader Al-Humaidhi noted that "the production of petrochemicals in the GCC countries increased from 18 million tonnes in 1997 to 38 million tonnes in 2004.
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City officials Thursday acknowledged 2003 crime figures were way off. What looked like a drop in crime to historic lows turned out to be a 4 percent rise.
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After experiencing a horrible smog season in 2003, Southern California&#39;s cool, mild summer helped make this the cleanest smog season in 25 years, officials said Thursday.
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The Environmental Protection Agency released an annual report on Monday that showed enforcement actions in the last fiscal year would eliminate a billion pounds of pollution from the nation&#39;s air, land and water.
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By Ian Hoffman, STAFF WRITER  SACRAMENTO -- Scientists say bits of air pollution as small as a thousandth of a hair's width appear to be reducing rain and snowfall in the Sierra, Cascades and Rockies, potentially adding to threats of water shortages tied to global warming.
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By Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post Staff Writer  The escalating level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is making the world's oceans more acidic, government and independent scientists say.
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When ozone goes up in cities, even for short periods at levels below current regulatory standards, so does the death rate, according to an article in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Strong winds in the upper atmosphere drew down a near-record amount of ozone-destroying gases last year, according to a new study, and such winds may become more frequent as Earth heats up.
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The daily average for ozone nationwide is about 40 parts per billion, but the level can be dramatically higher in summer, especially in urban centers, according to the paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association.