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Scores More Heart Attacks and Strokes on High Pollution Days, Figures Show
Scores of children and adults are being rushed to hospital for emergency treatment on days of high pollution in cities across England, figures show.Each year emergency services see more than 120 additional...
77 Health Organizations Call for Climate Action to Fight Public Health Emergency
More than 70 leading public health groups, including the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics, agree that the climate crisis is also a health emergency.So far 77 organizations representing...
US Awards Nearly $10m to Clean Up Polluting School Buses
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded more than $9.3 million (£7.1m) to replace 473 old and polluting diesel school buses.The new funding will be spread across 145 school bus fleets...
Fiat Chrysler Recalling 965,000 U.S., Canadian Vehicles over Excess Emissions
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV will recall about 965,000 gasoline-powered vehicles in the United States and Canada that do not meet emissions standards and will replace their catalytic converters, officials said on Wednesday.The...
Air Pollution Particles Found in Mothers’ Placentas
Scientists have found the first evidence that particles of air pollution travel through pregnant women’s lungs and lodge in their placentas.Toxic air is already strongly linked to harm in foetuses but how...
Babies in Strollers Breathe Up to 60 Percent More Dangerous Air Pollution Than Adults
Parents might want to think twice before pushing their babies in strollers alongside busy streets.A study published Aug. 10 in Environment International by the Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE) at...
EU Efficiency Improvements ‘Could Avoid 27,500 Premature Deaths by 2030’
Domestic energy efficiency improvements in the EU could avoid up to 27,500 premature deaths from indoor cold by 2030.
That’s according to several new research projects at the University of Manchester – one...
Asthma Deaths Rise 25% amid Growing Air Pollution Crisis
A record number of people are dying of asthma, and experts have warned growing air pollution and a lack of basic care could be to blame.In England and Wales 1,320 people died...
