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Health & Wellness News tagged with pollution

"Where Do Dust Bunnies Come From?" Finally, An Answer
Health & Wellness  (tags: pollution, health, healthcare, research, humans, prevention, interesting )

Cal
- 59 days ago - enn.com
Anyone who has had the pleasure of cleaning their home or office has likely pondered a question which has puzzled and perplexed men and women for generations: where does all this dust come from?
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More Wildfire, More Bad Air
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, humans, prevention, pollution, CO2emissions, humans )

Cal
- 142 days ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
An expected rise in wildfire in coming decades is bad news for western lungs.
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U.S. Electronic Waste Gets Sent to Africa
Health & Wellness  (tags: africa, children, ethics, humans, usa, environment, pollution, mercury poisoning, government, risks, safety )

Caree
- 143 days ago - abcnews.go.com
Toxic trash sickens young scavengers in Ghana. Much of the e-waste in the Agbogbloshie dump comes from foreign countries, including the United States. Recyclers that buy it from government agencies ship it overseas in cargo containers mixed in with ...
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DISTURBING---Air Pollution Linked to Diminishing IQ of Children
Health & Wellness  (tags: education, environment, POLLUTION, health, healthcare, children, study )

Cal
- 159 days ago - enn.com
A new study published in the August 2009 edition of Pediatrics shows a possible disturbing correlation between increased urban air pollution and decreased IQ points in children.
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Sign Petition: Improve California Hen Welfare and Food Safety
Health & Wellness  (tags: animals, suffering, cruelty, death, environment, humans, health, safety, risks, disease, food, illness, money, corruption, business, dishonesty, factory, farming, pig, cow, chicken, fish, water, pollution, meat, steroids, antibiotics, global, warming )

Tom
- 222 days ago - community.hsus.org
AB 1437 will require that all shelled eggs sold in California as of January 1, 2015 be in compliance with the basic animal care standards set forth in the Prevention Farm Animal Cruelty Act, which was approved by 63.5 percent of voters in November 2008.
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Traffic Pollution Can Harm Babies in the Womb, Claim Researchers
Health & Wellness  (tags: environment, health, healthcare, pollution )

Cal
- 262 days ago - enn.com
The risk of a delivering a baby of small weight rose significantly with each increase in pollution levels during the first three months and final three months of pregnancy
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EPA to Monitor 66 Schools' Air
Health & Wellness  (tags: children, health, pollution, humans, environment, study )

Cal
- 271 days ago - usatoday.com
In its most sweeping effort to determine whether toxic chemicals permeate the air schoolchildren breathe, the Environmental Protection Agency is expected to announce plans today to monitor the air outside 62 schools in 22 states.
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Fish Across U.S. Tainted With Medicines
Health & Wellness  (tags: tainted fish, environment, oceans, pollution )

In A Mirr
- 276 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
Residue of medications for allergy, cholesterol, high blood pressure and depression were found in fish caught near five major cities, researchers say.
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EPA Will Stop Fighting NJ on Tighter Mercury Pollution Controls
Health & Wellness  (tags: pollution, government, green, humans, protection, environment, health, illness )

Ana
- 321 days ago - northjersey.com
The federal government will stop fighting efforts by New Jersey to tighten controls on mercury pollution, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa P. Jackson said today.
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Climate Change And Your Health
Health & Wellness  (tags: climate, climate-change, CO2emissions, endangered, environment, globalwarming, humans, nature, pollution, research, suffering, science, weather, world, death, health, illness, medicine, warning, safety, risks )

SirRobert
- 358 days ago - commongroundmag.com
As climate change continues to trigger atmospheric changes in air quality, people around the world will become more and more vulnerable to serious, or even fatal respiratory problems.
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China Also Suffers From Indoor Air Pollution
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, environment, world, Pollution, children, family )

Cal
- 440 days ago - latimes.com
Because of stoves and smoking, the air inside lower-class homes is up to 10 times worse than the gloom outside, researchers say.
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Flooding, After the Deluge, and the Politics of Toxic Mold
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, healthcare, environment, pollution, risks, protection, warning )

Cal
- 538 days ago - enn.com
With an estimated 11 million people and nine Midwestern states impacted by the floods, the severe weather preceding them, or both, toxic mold questions have assumed new significance. A reading of the US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) mold concern
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Study Sees Threat From Big-Particle Pollutants
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, environment, healthcare, pollution, study )

Cal
- 591 days ago - reuters.com
On days when there is a lot of dust and other large-particle pollutants in the air, slightly more elderly people go to hospital emergency rooms with heart problems, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
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Dawn of An Energy Famine
Health & Wellness  (tags: climate, climate-change, climatechange, CO2emissions, conservation, destruction, ecosystems, energy, environment, forests, globalwarming, globalwarming, government, green, greenhousegases, habitatdestruction, humans, nature, oceans, politics, pollution, p )

Kathleen
- 603 days ago - truthout.org
The world needs renewable energy fast, but as BP and Shell announced record profits, they also demonstrated that they are in essence retreating from renewables, perhaps with the exception of biofuels. They intend to focus their record billions on expandi
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Smog, Premature Deaths Linked, Panel Says
Health & Wellness  (tags: pollution, research, health, study, babies, death, prevention, risks, warning )

Susan
- 612 days ago - usatoday.com
Short-term exposure to smog, or ozone, is clearly linked to premature deaths that should be taken into account when measuring the health benefits of reducing air pollution, a National Academy of Sciences review concludes.
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