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Delay To Curbs On Toxic Shipping Emissions 'Would Cause 200,000 Extra Premature Deaths

A push by the shipping and oil industries for a five-year delay to curbs on toxic sulphur emissions would cause an extra 200,000 premature deaths from lung cancer and heart...

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Environment

Climate Change Not About Temperature, It's About Dying, Starving, Displaced People

Among the range of physical health impacts, Americans can look forward to a future of more food and water contamination, increased asthma rates, and tenfold jumps in death ...

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Health

How Air Pollution Affects Our Global Health

People have to breath to live. Air pollution can make that a problem.
A new study from the University of British Colombia found that more than 5.5 million people will ...

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Environment

Volkswagen Just Lost $17 Billion Because It Allegedly Cheated On Emissions Tests

At the center of the scandal is software, installed in upwards of 500,000 diesel vehicles, that was able to detect when the car was undergoing an official emissions test. T...

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Environment

Unraveling The Relationship Between Climate Change And Health

Is climate change a serious threat to human health? Simple logic would suggest the answer is yes, a point that the Obama administration is using to build support for the pr...

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Movies

SPY

Critic’s Rating : 3.5 Star.
 
Cast: Melissa McCarthy, Rose Byrne, Jason Statham, Jude Law, Miranda Hart. Read More

Health

Every 4th Schoolkid In City Fails Lung Test, Finds Survey

One in four Mumbai schoolchildren possibly has poor lung function, according to a multi-city survey released on the eve of World Asthma Day on Monday. The outlook is grimme...

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Sustainable Development

#dnaEdit: Tough Choices For Sustainable Development In India

The National Green Tribunal’s ban on diesel cars older than 10 years in Delhi and the launch of the national air quality index, signal a new urgency as well as the im...

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Health

Walking is a super pill

“Walking is super pill,” according to the findings of a recently released survey which was conducted among doctors who are treating the four most rampant chroni...

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Sustainable Development

Killer Coal

Coal accounts for 41 per cent of the world’s electricity generation. At approximately 210 gig watt (GW), India is the fifth largest producer of electricity in the wor...

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