Particle pollution falls 10% in 4 years
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WASHINGTON -- The average level of a deadly form of air pollution dropped in the United States from 1999 to 2003 as new pollution controls made strides in battling the nation&#39;s air quality problem, the Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday.
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Â· Crackdown on alcohol-related road deaths  Â· European safety figures show UK falling behind
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In its Water Indicator Report, the agency says the pollution of groundwater supplies has worsened in many areas over the past 12 months, reversing the trends reported in recent years.  However, there has been a slight improvement in the pollution levels in some rivers.
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Hundreds of millions of people fall ill every year or die prematurely from air and water pollution caused by China's breakneck economic growth, one of the world's leading economic thinktanks has concluded following an 18-month investigation.
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Just over a year before it plays host to the Olympics, Beijing reported its worst air pollution for June in seven years, state media said Sunday.
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Seven years after establishing a new national health standard for fine particle pollution, which has been linked to thousands of deaths each year, the US Environmental Protection Agency yesterday began enforcing it.
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By Kathie Durbin, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Feb. 12--Just when things seem to be settling into a routine and the flood of new bills (2,084 as of Friday) is slowing to a trickle, along comes global climate change.
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Tiny air-born particles released by  burning fossil fuels are reducing the average human life span  across Europe and North America by eight months, a leading  research body said on Monday.
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By SCOTT McDONALD  BEIJING - China's environmental watchdog admitted Monday the country had failed to reach any of its pollution control goals for 2006 and had fallen further behind as the economy picked up speed.
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About two-thirds of British moth species have shown a decline since 1970,  scientists say.
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For the first time since record keeping began in 1960, the number of deaths of young children around the world has fallen below 10 million a year, Unicef reported.
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Britain's carbon emissions fell by  0.1% last year, according to government figures.
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Description: A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine this week indicates that current levels of air pollution have chronic adverse effects on lung development in children aged 10 to 18.
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Long-term exposure to air pollution adversely affects lung function in teenagers, results of The Children's Health Study indicate.
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The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $4 million in grants to study the health and environmental risks posed by manufactured nanomaterials -- the new and invisibly tiny materials that
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A decade of satellite surveys of the oceans has revealed that warmer years cause a decline in phytoplankton, the vast clouds of tiny drifting plants that are a fundamental component of marine life.
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Government curbs on secondhand smoke in New York led to nearly 4,000 fewer hospital admissions for heart attacks in 2004, according to a new statewide study.