Pollutants From Asia Appear on East Coast
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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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An explosion in demand for air conditioners that rely on ozone-depleting refrigerants in India and China is becoming a fast-growing threat to efforts to combat global warming.
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The Bush administration is making headway with other nations in setting new global standards to reduce dangerous emissions from giant diesel-burning ships that are polluting U.S. ports, a senior environmental official said Thursday. An emergency room physician described a "diesel death zone" around major U.S. seaports, with higher cancer rates and other health risks.
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By Amos Maki, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn.  Dec. 19--When Dan Cowan first laid his eyes on a heavily polluted  industrial site in Charleston, S.C., in 1998, he could hardly believe what he  saw.
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When it comes to forests, air pollution is not an equal opportunity hazard. While dirty air spreads across large areas of the New England region, it's more scattered in the southeastern part of the United States.
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Industrial pollution in China is having a significant impact on local rainfall, according to a scientific study.
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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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Washington state's top polluter isn't a pulp mill, a power plant or refinery. It's the newly awakened Mount St. Helens. Since the volcano began erupting in early October, it has been pumping out 50 to 250 tons a day of sulfur dioxide, the lung-stinging gas that causes acid rain and contributes to haze.
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XIAMEN: This port city in East China's Fujian Province has decided to put a highly polluting chemical project on hold, authorities said yesterday.
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America may spew more greenhouse gases than any other country, but some states are astonishingly more prolific polluters than others &#151; and it's not always the ones you might expect.
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A U.S. Navy aircraft carrier battle group is heading from Hong Kong to the shores of Sumatra. The first of many Air Force C-130 cargo planes has landed in Indonesia with a load of blankets, plastic sheeting and medicines.
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A Thai medic sprays disinfectant over the rotting corpses of those killed in Sunday&#39;s tidal waves at a Buddhist temple in Pang-Nga province, southern Thailand, Thursday, Dec. 30, 2004.
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NEW DELHI, DEC 15: One out of every five ayurvedic herbal medicinal products produced in South Asia, mainly India, and available in South Asian grocery stores of Boston in the US, was found to contain potentially harmful levels of lead, mercury, and/or
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TOKYO - It is typhoon season in East Asia. The fourth to hit in less than a month lashed southern Japan yesterday, unleashing torrential rain, strong winds and high tides that left thousands without power, forced
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LINFEN, China _ Here in one of the world's most polluted cities, where coal dust blackens apples still on the branch, something new is in the air.  It's not the brown smoke chugging out of coke plants and iron smelters day and night. The stranger is talk of an ultimatum.
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Air pollution is on the minds of many athletes this summer, especially those who have moved their workouts outside.
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By Cao Li  SHANGHAI: A fast-spreading, foul-smelling, blue-green algae has smothered a lake in eastern China, contaminating the local water supply for millions of people and sparking panic buying of bottled water in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province.