DEQ Issues Pollution Advisory (KOIN News 6 Portland) |
| PORTLAND - The state Department of Environmental Quality issued a pollution advisory for the Willamette Valley. The agency suggests that children, older adults and people with heart or lung disease limit their outdoor activities. |
Mathematical physicist to discuss climate change (News Leader) |
| HARRISONBURG — A mathematical physicist from the University of California, Riverside will visit James Madison University on Thursday to discuss climate change. |
'Climate change biggest threat to human development' (IBN via Yahoo! India News) |
| The Human Development Report 2007 is set to be released a month. But for the first time it focuses on the human development cost of climate change. While there s been consistent progress in areas like literacy, poverty alleviation and nutrition, the report says we could be the first generation to see a drop in these development indices because of global warming. |
Climate change: Merkel asks India to do more (Express India) |
| Angela Merkel urged India to do more to combat climate change, saying Germany was willing to help New Delhi make progress. |
Merkel asks India to do more on climate change (Reuters via Yahoo! India News) |
| NEW DELHI (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged India, one of the world's biggest polluters, to do more to combat climate change on Tuesday, saying her country was willing to help New Delhi make progress. |
Merkel asks India to do more on climate change (AlertNet) |
| Source: Reuters By Y.P. Rajesh NEW DELHI, Oct 30 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged India, one of the world's biggest polluters, to do more to combat climate change on Tuesday, saying her country was ... |
Health Effects Of Climate Change Must Be Highlighted, Australia (Medical News Today) |
| AMA (Australian Medical Assocation) President, Dr Rosanna Capolingua, said that the potential devastating impact that climate change would have on human health has been largely ignored by the major parties as they spruik their environmental policies ahead of the Federal Election. [click link for full article] |
Nigeria: 'Consequences of Climate Change Unpredictable' (AllAfrica.com) |
| It is absolutely difficult for anyone to predict the consequences of climate change with complete certainty and accuracy but it is accepted that lots of climate change presents serious global risk and threat, a Chair of the African Group on Climate Change said yesterday. |
Lawsuit filed over port air pollution (Long Beach Press-Telegram) |
| Thousands sick after government failed to regulate emissions, group says. A new lawsuit blasts the federal government for failing to regulate diesel ship emissions despite evidence that air pollution around harbor communities is sickening thousands annually. |
Editorial: Smart Growth Can Help Minnesota Address Climate Change, Improve Quality of Life (Smart Growth Online) |
| Assembled by Republican Governor Tim Pawlenty to help the state carry out an 80-percent greenhouse gas emission cut by 2050, with about 27 percent of the current emissions attributable to transportation, the broad-based Minnesota Climate Change Advisory Committee has been concentrating on the need ''to change the ways Minnesotans commute and travel,'' observes a Twin Cities Minnesota Daily ... |
Cash for mercury: A new, controversial way to cut pollution (The Post and Courier) |
| Centuries ago, alchemists thought mercury was the source of gold. In roughly two years, through a bit of government alchemy, mercury pollution could end up being worth even more than gold. Beginning in 2010, the Environmental Protection Agency will launch its mercury cap-and-trade program. ... |
Australia, India join hands to fight pollution (EARTHtimes.org) |
| Sydney, Oct 30 - Australian and Indian scientists have joined hands to monitor and clean up the pollution that has become the bane of steadily increasing industrialisation across the world. As a start, they will monitor pollution spreading in groundwater. |
Australia, India join hands to fight pollution (IANS via Yahoo! India News) |
| Sydney, Oct 30 (IANS) Australian and Indian scientists have joined hands to monitor and clean up the pollution that has become the bane of steadily increasing industrialisation across the world. As a start, they will monitor pollution spreading in groundwater. |
'No link' between drought and climate change (Perth Now) |
| MOST farmers believe climate change is a natural phenomenon and not man-made, senior delegates to a farmers' conference said today. |
Environmental groups sue over "mothball fleet" pollution (San Jose Mercury News) |
| SAN FRANCISCO - Several environmental groups announced plans today o sue the federal government over toxic pollution caused by a fleet of mothballed warships floating near San Francisco Bay. |
Schwarzenegger regrets US's poor effort on global warming (AFP via Yahoo! News) |
| California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger told a conference in Lisbon on Monday that he regretted Washington's lack of engagement on global warming but insisted it was not ignoring the issue. |
Pollution causing rise in China birth defects: report (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) |
| A sharp rise in birth defects amongst Chinese children is being attributed to environmental pollution. |
Pollution blamed as China confronts surge in number of deformed babies (Times Online) |
| An alarming rise in birth defects was acknowledged by China yesterday, amid concern that heavy pollution is damaging the country’s children. |
Global warming may hit kids harder, pediatrics group says (USA Today) |
| Global warming is likely to disproportionately harm the health of children, and politicians should launch "aggressive policies" to curb climate change, the American Academy of Pediatrics said today. |
Global warming threatens tourist landmarks (China Economic Net) |
| One of China's leading tourist landmarks, Meili Snow Mountain, will be devoid of snow within 80 years if global warming trends continue, a meteorological scientist warned on Monday. |
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