Air pollution killer in Asian cities: report
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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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Industrial pollution in China is having a significant impact on local rainfall, according to a scientific study.
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Air pollution in Hong Kong has hit record levels, the government said on Wednesday, and it warned people with heart or respiratory problems to stay indoors.
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Scientists have long known that air pollution is a serious health hazard that increases the risk of premature death. But a new study may come as a shock.
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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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SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea&#39;s forests are depleted, its rivers and streams are filled with runoff from factories and a reliance on coal energy has created severe urban air pollution, the United Nations said Friday in its first report on the communist
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NEW YORK  - 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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Dirty water and air kill 500,000 a year, says report, as environment chief points finger at corrupt officials
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Lung cancer kills one person every  minute in Asia, and in most cases, the disease was detected too  late for effective treatment, medical experts said.
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In the first long-term study of the effects of air pollution on children, researchers reported Wednesday that children and teenagers in Southern California communities
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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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&quot;Thousands of bodies rotting in the tropical heat were tumbled into mass graves, but officials said polluted water posed a greater threat..&quot;. BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - The death toll of the Asian tsunami disaster
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NEW YORK  - Kids who live in neighborhoods with heavy traffic pollution have lower IQs and score worse on other tests of intelligence and memory than children who breathe cleaner air, a new study shows.
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LOS ANGELES A new Environmental Protection Agency report says concentrations of dangerous air pollutants have declined in Southern California in the last five years.
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MODERN lifestyle is taking a heavy toll on the health of urban city dwellers in China. A study by the Chinese Red Cross of 16 Chinese cities, each with more than 1 million people, found that 75 per cent of
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By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID  WASHINGTON - Pollution from Asia is helping generate stronger storms over the North Pacific, according to new research. Changes in the North Pacific storm track could have an impact on weather across the Northern Hemisphere.
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SEOUL The forests in North Korea are depleted, its rivers and streams are filled with runoff from factories and the country&#39;s reliance on coal energy has created severe urban air pollution, the United Nations said on Friday in its first report on the