Air quality in Singapore plunges
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Smoke from Indonesian brush fires darkened skies across Southeast Asia on Saturday, sending air pollution levels soaring in at least two other nations.
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CHICAGO _ Even as cities and states show progress in ridding the skies of smog, the federal government declared Thursday that much of the nation's air is too dirty to breathe safely.  New rules proposed by the U.S.
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Smoggy, sooty, unhealthy air returned to settle over the Washington area this week, setting off Code Orange pollution alerts and signaling that -- even after decades of cleanup efforts -- summertime here can still mean irritants in every breath.
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With a little help from good weather, air in the Los Angeles was the cleanest on record this year, regulators said Thursday. Still, the region&#39;s air quality remained the worst
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Scientists looking into air quality and climate change have found pollutants from as far as Asia over New England and the Atlantic.
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For people with lung problems, the air quality found in commercial airliners can produce a drop in blood oxygen below recommended levels, Australian researchers report.
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The worst outbreak of dengue fever in years has hit Southeast Asia, prompting the World Health Organization to call for better prevention campaigns as experts question whether global warming is partly to blame.
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Thanks in part to an explosion of demand for air-conditioners in hot places like India and China, the ozone layer is proving very hard to repair.
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Of the 12 million tourists who visited Thailand this year, many headed straight to the gems of the south to soak up the sun along tropical beaches, dive on spectacular coral reefs and indulge in a languid, sometimes lascivious, lifestyle. Now, they're scurrying away in droves, reeling from a disaster of epic proportions which left five-star resorts and &#36;3-a-night bungalows in ruins and polluted the air with the smell of rotting corpses.
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A pressure group is formed to urge Hong Kong's government to act on air quality amid warnings over costs to the economy.
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The World Health Organization on Thursday called on governments to improve air quality in their cities, saying air pollution prematurely kills two million people a year, with more than half the deaths in developing countries.
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SINGAPORE (Dow Jones)--Singapore will wait for multiple investigations into China Aviation Oil Singapore Ltd.&#39;s (c47.SG) US$550 million trading losses before deciding whether to further tighten regulations, the central bank said Thursday.
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The Bush administration imposed stricter standards on the nation's air quality yesterday for the first time in nearly a decade, ruling that communities across the country must cut back on the amount of soot in the air on any given day.
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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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Plunge in Shanghai reverberates around the world.
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Hong Kong's air pollution is causing higher hospitalization of elderly patients with chronic bronchitis, an academic study has found, and experts on Tuesday called for urgent improvements in the city's air quality.
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An environmental monitoring station in southern China is recruiting people with keen noses to sniff out foul gases in the atmosphere and provide more accurate readings of air quality.