Feature articles on pollution: | 9/12/2008 - (NaturalNews) Any guesses who the U.S.’s largest polluter is? Would it surprise you to hear that it is the Defense Department? Probably not that surprising if you think it through. How about this, though. The Defense Department is currently resisting...
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 | 9/9/2008 - (NaturalNews) It seems like a healthy thing to do: getting outside. Maybe you like to go for walks or spend an hour gardening or riding your bike. Unfortunately, if you live where the air is polluted, you could be hurting your health by simply breathing...
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 | 9/7/2008 - (NaturalNews) Air pollution produced by the burning of fossil fuels can drastically increase people's risk of developing potentially fatal blood clots, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health and published...
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 | 9/6/2008 - (NaturalNews) Particulate pollution from the burning of fossil fuels kills 24,000 people per year in California, according to the newest figures from the California Air Resources Board. This is nearly three times higher than the 8,200 people previously...
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 | 8/3/2008 - (NaturalNews) New evidence blames traffic-related pollution for increasing the risk of allergy and atopic diseases among children by more than fifty percent. What’s more, the closer the children live to roads, the higher their risk.
“[Children] living...
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 | 7/31/2008 - (NaturalNews) Pescetarian, Piscatarian, Pescatorian, Pesco-vegetarian, Fishetarian -- No, these are not the names for members of obscure religious sects. These are some of the different terms used for people who do not eat the meat of mammals and birds...
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 | 7/9/2008 - (NaturalNews) Contamination of water supplies and illegal use of veterinary drugs has led to the severe contamination of Chinese fish farms, with potentially serious health consequences for those who eat the fish.
China produces 70 percent of the...
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 | 5/29/2008 - (NaturalNews) How do mercury emissions affect pregnant mothers, the unborn and toddlers? Do the level of emissions impact autism rates? Does it matter whether a mercury-emitting source is 10 miles away from families versus 20 miles? Is the risk of autism...
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 | 5/13/2008 - (NaturalNews) The small community of West Oakland, California lies between three freeways and the fourth largest container port in the U.S. Unfortunately, the residents of this working-class African-American community are accustomed to the exhaust of...
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 | 4/16/2008 - (NaturalNews) We have all wondered what was happening to the honey bees. Now, from recent research by the University of Virginia, we have an answer.
Air pollution from power plants and automobiles is destroying the fragrance of flowers and thereby...
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 | 3/10/2008 - (NaturalNews) Analysis of tap water supplies in major metropolitan areas conducted by the Associated Press has revealed that the water supply in 24 major U.S. cities -- serving over 40 million people -- are contaminated with trace amounts of pharmaceuticals...
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 | 3/7/2008 - (NaturalNews) The amazing health benefits we derive from eating plants and drinking their juices are just the beginning of the story. Research shows that when we bring plants inside to share our environments, we multiply those benefits.
Houseplants...
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| 2/18/2008 - (NaturalNews) A study by researchers at Queensland University in Brisbane, Australia warns that women exposed to air pollution in urban areas during pregnancy have smaller fetuses than those in areas with cleaner air. This is the first study to show that...
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 | 12/10/2007 - (NaturalNews) A massive cloud of pollution from Asia's fast-growing industrial economies is having wide-ranging effects on global climate and air quality. According to a study recently published in the Journal of Geophysical Research, tremendous plumes...
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 | 12/6/2007 - Firing ranges expose the environment and the ecosystem to lead pollution caused by the presence of lead in ammunition projectiles. This makes lead pollution a major concern for the public. When these bullets are fired, they emit lead particles that...
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 | 11/5/2007 - (NaturalNews) Diesel fumes interact with fatty acids found in LDL ("bad") cholesterol to raise the risk of heart disease, according to a study published in the online journal "Genome Biology."
On their own, both diesel fumes and certain fatty acids...
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 | 5/23/2007 - (NaturalNews) Living with a smoker or in a major city places a person at greater risk of early death than living in the radioactive exclusion zone around Chernobyl, according to a study conducted by scientists at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in...
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 | 3/23/2007 - Spiking air pollution in Asia, driven by rapid industrialization and urbanization, has changed the atmosphere over the North Pacific enough to cause stronger-than-usual thunderstorms in the winter and may even have wider effects on the global climate,...
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 | 2/13/2007 - (NaturalNews) According to a United Nations report published last month, raising animals for food is one of the single biggest causes of global warming, in addition to land degradation and pollution of air and water.
"The livestock sector emerges as...
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 | 2/8/2007 - (NaturalNews) A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine has discovered a significant correlation between the air pollution around a woman's home and her risk of heart disease.
While only women were studied, researchers believe that...
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| 12/22/2006 - (NaturalNews) A U.S. research team has found evidence suggesting that India's shrinking rice harvests -- which have been declining since the 1980s -- have been caused by the polluted clouds that are shrouding a large portion of South Asia and reducing...
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 | 12/13/2006 - (NaturalNews) An environmental tax may be coming to China since widespread pollution could hold back the country's continued economic growth, according to new reports fro China's Southern Daily newspaper.
Mao Rubai -- chairman of the Environment and...
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 | 11/23/2006 - (NaturalNews) The buildup of unwanted clutter from the International Space station has sparked years of debate, so NASA has finally decided that the best approach is to jettison some of the waste into space.
NASA has a reputation for ingraining responsible...
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 | 11/3/2006 - (NaturalNews) A report funded by the National Science Foundation's National Center for Ecological Synthesis and Analysis, appearing in Friday's issue of the journal Science, warns that overfishing and pollution may mean an end to seafood by 2048.
"Whether...
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 | 10/6/2006 - (NaturalNews) According to new research examined by the World Health Organization (WHO), air pollution in cities around the world causes roughly 2 million premature deaths each year.
Yesterday members of the WHO's special program for health and the...
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| 9/22/2006 - Ground-level ozone pollution — a summertime problem in many urban areas — also may contribute to a previously unrecognized form of indoor air pollution, scientists are reporting. ...
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| 9/15/2006 - Test results with laboratory mice show a direct cause-and-effect link between exposure to fine particle air pollution and the development of atherosclerosis, commonly known as hardening of the arteries. Mice that were fed a high-fat diet and exposed...
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| 9/13/2006 - New York University School of Medicine researchers provide some of the most compelling evidence yet that long-term exposure to air pollution—even at levels within federal standards—causes heart disease. Previous studies have linked air pollution to cardiovascular...
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| 9/7/2006 - Test results with laboratory mice show a direct cause-and-effect link between exposure to fine particle air pollution and the development of atherosclerosis, commonly known as hardening of the arteries. Mice that were fed a high-fat diet and exposed...
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| 8/11/2006 - Being exposed to fine particle matter air pollution increases a person’s risk for hospital admission for cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, according to a study in the March 8 issue of JAMA.
Numerous studies have shown associations of chronic...
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| 8/1/2006 - (NaturalNews) The pollution of the world's oceans is extracting a price from ocean life and human life -- scientists say a dangerous "toxic slime" is rising up from the depths.
One such symptom is a mutated strain of a 2.7-billion-year-old cyanobacteria...
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