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Study Finds That Air Pollution Increases Diastolic Blood Pressure »
Posted by: SenorCoconut 2 months, 2 weeks ago in News
Researchers have found that inhaling air pollution for over just two hours caused a significant increase in diastolic blood pressure.
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Stop Smoking and Stay away from Emphysema Disease that Claims More than 120,000 American lives per Year »
Posted by: WikiMap 4 months, 2 weeks ago in News
Emphysema occurs when there is impaired gas exchange. It is due to the destruction of the walls of the lungs because the alveoli become over ...
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Drop in U.S. Air Pollution Linked to Longer Lifespans »
Posted by: altnrg 10 months ago in Health & Fitness
Americans are living longer because the air they breathe is getting cleaner, a new study suggests. The average drop in air pollution seen across 51 ...
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Air Pollution Linked to Diabetes »
Posted by: SenorCoconut 10 months, 1 week ago in Health & Fitness
In addition to the consumption of diets high in fat and sugar, a new study suggests that the air you breathe may also increase the ...
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Aerosols make methane more potent »
Posted by: SenorCoconut 3 weeks, 5 days ago in Science & Technology
Air pollution linked more closely to climate concerns.
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City Kids Find the Breathin’ Is Easier Elsewhere »
Posted by: simmonw 8 months, 3 weeks ago in News
MONDAY, March 2 (HealthDay News) — After a week away from urban air pollution, children with mild persistent asthma begin to show dramatic changes in their ...
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Obama Moving Forward Fast for Climate, Air, Species, Lands »
Posted by: bowsnumba1 9 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
The administration has a long way to go if it wants to undo Bush's environmental sabotage.
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Revving up greener, cleaner lawn mowers »
Posted by: monte-g 1 year, 2 months ago in Science & Technology
Filter company MemPro Ceramics has developed what it calls the FoxNox, a "catalytic filter" designed to neutralize air pollutants from lawn mower engines.
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The Worlds Largest City Just Keeps on Growing and Growing »
Posted by: jddeal 10 months ago in News
Mexico City, the world's most populous city, just keeps growing and growing with no end in sight. In the next ten to twenty years ...
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Just the Facts: Bush Admin Responsible For 176,000 American Civilian Deaths »
Posted by: twilightearth 9 months, 3 weeks ago in News
If you could directly save the lives of 176,000 people in the United States, and you refused to do it, or worse yet, created ...
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Life Expectancy Age Increased Due to Cleaner Air »
Posted by: Kirks 6 months, 2 weeks ago in Health & Fitness
It seems that improving the quality of the air we breathe may well be paying off, dramatically increasing the average life expectancy age according to ...
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Exxon Mobil To Pay $6.1 Million Fine Over Air Pollution »
Posted by: TimALoftis 11 months, 1 week ago in Business & Finance
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- -- Federal officials have fined Exxon Mobil more than $6 million after it violated a three-year-old agreement to decrease air pollution at four of ...
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Aerosols impact Australian weather »
Posted by: WilliamAtkins 9 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
According to an Australian atomospheric scientist, aerosols, both naturally and artifically produced, may cause a much more damaging effect on Australian rainfall and future climate ...
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China, Struggling to Control Smog, Announces 'Just-in-Case' Plan »
Posted by: berkeley 1 year, 3 months ago in News
Eight days before the 2008 Summer Olympics kick off in Beijing, the city's air quality is still so unpredictable that officials were forced Thursday ...
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NJ/NY Port shippers see wolf in 'green' clothing »
Posted by: frankbrill 2 weeks, 6 days ago in Business & Finance
A broad group of retailers and other shippers are calling on the mayors of New York City and Newark, N.J., to withdraw their support ...
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