Channel 4 News
| Feb 28, 2013
The 10 million residents of Shijiazhuang in northern China have spent the winter choking on off-the-scale air pollution even worse than Beijing's. A growing number of citizens are starting to fight back with the help of smartphones and other techn...
drivinman687
| Jan 27, 2013
As China's air grows increasingly foul, it might be time to check out this viral video: "Our Story in Two Minutes." The film was a Minnesota high school project for a video class Cutaway Productions by a budding filmmaker identified by local media...
Reuters
| Nov 26, 2012
Imagine a future in which you could scrub pollution out of the air simply by wearing clothing laundered in a detergent containing pollution-busting nanoparticles.Scientist Tony Ryan at the University of Sheffield and London College of Fashion desi...
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Journeyman Pictures
| Aug 16, 2012
VBS travels to the single most polluted place on earth, the coal-mining town of Linfen in Shanxi Province, China, where kids play in dirty rivers and the sun sets early behind a thick curtain of smog.
Geo News
| Jul 19, 2012
Twelve-year-old Amir sells polythene bags in the roads of Peshawar and earns around 100 rupees a day. What he is unaware of is the fact that the use and sale of polythene bags is not only prohibited, but also hazardous to his health. Polythene bag...
LinkAsia
| Jan 5, 2012
China has enacted a new carbon tax that many say incentivizes fuel efficient vehicles. The government used to charge a flat automobile tax, now it has seven different levels depending on engine size.
NTDTV
| Dec 7, 2011
The unusually "heavy fog" that has been lingering over Beijing since the weekend is actually smog -- at least based on the air quality index readings from the US Embassy in China. The haze is so dense that visibility drops to about 30 to 60 feet i...
LinkAsia
| Nov 11, 2011
Haze has surrounded many parts of China, including Beijing, where residents are wondering what's in the air. Matters are complicated by the different standards used to measure air quality. Angel Hsu, a doctoral student at the Yale School of Forest...
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...is common among smokers and unborn babies of mothers who smoke also suffer from the harmful effects of smoking. * Exhaust Gases of Vehicles Poll...
— Feb 27 at 07:01 pm
...in Kodaikanal in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu. After mercury leakage from the plant had been reported in March 2001, heavy expenditure h...
— May 17 at 10:56 pm
...trying to make machines that will help reduce the pollution in the air which will help the environment. One way the United States has tried stop...
Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into a natural environment that causes instability, harm, or discomfort to the ecosystem i.e. physical systems or living organisms. Pollution can take the form of chemical substances or energy, such as noise, heat or light. Pollutants, the components of pollution, can be either foreign substances/energies or naturally occurring contaminants. Pollution is often classed as point source or nonpoint source pollution. The Blacksmith Institute issues an annual list of the world's worst polluted places. In the 2007 issues the ten top nominees are located in Azerbaijan, China, India, Peru, Russia, Ukraine and Zambia.
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