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3761. March 30, 2013 | Deccan Hearald
Pollution turns Bangalore into oven, India
If the summer is getting unbearable this year, blame high density of dust particles and pollutants in the air...

3762. March 29, 2013 | The Huffington Post
Pesticide Lobby Spends Millions To Defend Chemicals Tied To Bee Deaths, USA
WASHINGTON -- The chemical pesticide lobby is waging a multi-million dollar battle to prevent regulation of chemicals linked to the dramatic escalation in the deaths of pollinating bees over the past year...

3763. March 29, 2013 | Mother Jones
EPA to Study Flame Retardant Chemicals. Finally, USA
The EPA announced this week that it will study the health and environmental risks of 23 chemicals, with an emphasis on chemical flame retardants that are found in many common products...

3764. March 29, 2013 | IPS
U.S. Unveils Major New Proposal to Cut Vehicle Emissions, USA
Environmentalists and public health advocates are lauding a key, long-awaited proposal put forward by President Barack Obama’s administration that would require cleaner gasoline and more effective technologies on vehicles, cutting various harmful emissions by 40 to 80 percent...

3765. March 29, 2013 | NDTV.com
Mumbai: 5 dead in wall collapse after explosion in chemical factory, India
Mumbai: Five people were killed and seven others injured after the wall of a house collapsed following an explosion in a makeshift aluminium mould producing unit at Sakinaka area in Andheri...

3766. March 28, 2013 | eurekalert.org
Notre Dame researcher is studying role small dams play in pollution control, France
Sometimes, little things can add up to a lot. In short, that's the message of a research study on small dams, streams and pollution by Steve Powers, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Notre Dame's Environmental Change Initiative (ECI)...

3767. March 27, 2013 | Agence France-Presse (AFP)
US regulators under fire over bee-toxic pesticides, USA
US environmental regulators are under fire from beekeepers and conservationists who say they are failing to vet risky pesticides that put people and valuable crop pollinators like bees in peril...

3768. March 27, 2013 | latimes.com
Toxic waste site near Kettleman City to pay $311,000 in fines, USA
A toxic waste dump near the San Joaquin Valley farming community of Kettleman City has agreed to pay $311,000 in fines for failing to report 72 hazardous materials spills over the last four years...

3769. March 27, 2013 | Fars News Agency (FNA)
Iranian Scientists Use Optimized Nanofibers to Measure Toxic Heavy Metals, Iran
TEHRAN - In a research conducted to determine the effective parameters on nanofibers adsorbents, Iranian researchers from Islamic Azad University succeeded in designing and optimizaing modified acrylonitrile nanofibers to measure toxic heavy metals...

3770. March 26, 2013 | United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
IPCC invites experts to take part in second round of comments on Working Group II contribution to Fifth Assessment Report
In order to arrive at a balanced assessment, Working Group II hopes to draw on the expertise of climate scientists as well as others with the knowledge or experience to provide scientific review comments on climate change impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability...

3771. March 26, 2013 | People's Daily Onlone
Beijing and Tianjin to tackle heavy pollution, China
Beijing and Tianjin have drawn up an emergency plan to tackle heavy pollution, under an agreement signed by authorities in the two municipalities on Sunday...

3772. March 26, 2013 | China.org.cn
Peru declares oil pollution emergency in Amazon region, Peru
The Peruvian government had declared an environmental state of emergency in a remote Amazon jungle region, Environment Minister Manuel Pulgar-Vidal said Monday...

3773. March 26, 2013 | BirminghamMail
Portable toilets firm fined after river pollution killed hundreds of fish, UK
Walsall firm was supplying the Bulldog Bash biker festival when it dumped toxic waste into the River Avon...

3774. March 26, 2013 | Japan Today
Traffic pollution may cause 14% of childhood asthma: study, France
PARIS — As much as 14% of chronic childhood asthma may be caused by people living near busy roads and exposed to traffic pollution, according to a study in 10 European cities...

3775. March 25, 2013 | The Economic Times
Tibet glaciers melting due to South Asian pollution: China, China
BEIJING: About 90 per cent of glaciers in Tibet called the Third Pole region, are shrinking because of black carbon pollution "transferred from South Asia" to the Tibetan Plateau, a Chinese scientist has warned...

3776. March 25, 2013 | vanguardngr.com
3 kids die over alleged water pollution in Bayelsa, Nigeria
YENAGOA — THREE teenagers have died in Lotugbene community in Bayelsa State after allegedly drinking water from a river polluted by the rig operation of an oil company in the area...

3777. March 25, 2013 | http://lewrockwell.com
Forced Medicine: The Philosophy Behind Fluoridation
Scientific studies have linked fluoridation of the water supply to lowered IQs, increased risk of cancer, and bone disease, amongst other conditions...

3778. March 25, 2013 | Environmental Health News
Secondhand smoke during pregnancy alters children's behavior
Mothers who breathe secondhand smoke are twice as likely to have children with attention and aggression problems, a study from China reports...

3779. March 25, 2013 | MINING.com
Mercury pollution linked to illegal gold mining in Peru reaches lethal levels, Peru
A new study of mercury contamination in fish and humans in the Peruvian jungle, highly troubled by illegal gold mining, found unsafe levels of the toxic metal in almost 80% of adults and 60% of fish sold at local markets...

3780. March 25, 2013 | The Associated Press (AP)
Pollution from Canada threatens fish downstream, Canada
WHITEFISH, Mont. — A study by University of Montana researchers shows that pollutants leeching into the heavily mined Elk River drainage in southeastern British Columbia have reached alarming levels...