Asia dominates list of world's most polluted places
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World's worst-polluted areas span seven countries and affect the health of roughly 12 million people, says environmental group.
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One of the most powerful earthquakes in  a century hit Asia on Sunday, unleashing tsunami waves on  coastal areas of Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia and Thailand, and  killing an estimated 11,300 people.
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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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Asia's economic boom has caused a surge in car and motorcycle sales, undercutting efforts to promote public transport in the region and clean up its dirty skies, delegates told a pollution conference Thursday.
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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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"This is probably because of an increase in forest fires due to climate change. There are more fires in Siberia and North America and these bring more soot into the atmosphere."  FROM a remote, snow-capped mountain in the European Arctic, you can detect China in the haze In the apparently pure Arctic air, a research station on a Norwegian island mountain ridge finds chemical traces from ... via Scotsman.com News
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XIAMEN, China  - Dirty, polluted, and congested -- China's large cities have an unenviably poor reputation.
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China pledges to dispose key polluters    BEIJING, Sept. 2 (Xinhua) -- China's top environmental watchdog launched investigations into six of the country's most notorious polluters on Friday, with last week's chemical spill on a tributary to the Songhua River on the list.
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Blog: China surpasses U.S. as worst greenhouse gas emitter, earlier than predicted.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - Burning of the Amazon and  other forests accounts for three quarters of Brazil's  greenhouse gas emissions and has made the country one of the  world's leading polluters, a long-delayed government report  showed on Wednesday.
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China has overtaken the US as the world's biggest producer of carbon dioxide, the chief greenhouse gas, figures released today show.
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By Evan Osnos, Chicago Tribune  Mar. 12--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.
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Toxic leak victims rise to 126 in central China    WUHAN, Feb. 2 (Xinhua) -- Another 25 people have been hospitalized after toxic chemicals leaked from a tanker, bringing the total number of victims to 126, officials with the Xiaogan government said Friday.
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MONTERREY, Mexico  - The world's top polluting nations were told on Wednesday to prepare for decades of weather turmoil, even if they act now to curb emissions and pursue green energy sources.
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Asia will be able to weather the rising prices of oil but economic growth will slow down, with Thailand and the Philippines being the worst affected in a group of 10 countries, a report by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said .
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Based on the comprehensive survey conducted by comScore on the Internet behavior of Asia-Pacific countries, Yahoo emerged as the most visited site in the Asia-Pacific region, beating rivals Google and MSN sites. Seven of the Asia-Pacific countries studied rank Yahoo in the number one position, as against MSN (no.2) and Google (no.3).  Other significant findings of [...]
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Large parts of Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore are covered by thick smog from Indonesian bush fires.