Obese children exposed to high levels of air pollutants were nearly three times as likely to have asthma, compared with non-obese children and lower levels of pollution exposure, report researchers at Columbia University Medical Center ...
China National Offshore Oil Corp has signed an agreement with a Taiwanese company to help promote LNG in Taiwan's Kinmen county. Shinfox Corp. confirmed Monday that it had signed a framework agreement on Friday with CNOOC's majority-owned ...
Tags: spot cargoes, Chemicals
Long-term exposure to particulate matter is associated with an increased risk for heart attack. Moreover, this association can already be observed in levels of particulate exposure below the current specified European limit values. These ...
Tags: Health, Medicine, Heart Attack
After the driest year on record in 2013, California is facing its driest January ever, and the dryness mixed with pollution is unhealthy, officials say. A stuck high-pressure zone off the West Coast of the United States is creating dry ...
Tags: health, dry conditions
The words "Made in China" are synonymous with inexpensive electronics and housewares purchased in the United States. But a consequence of Americans' buying habits is air pollution that's also made in China, researchers say. Much of the ...
Surging air pollution from China and other fast-growing Asian economies has intensified winter cyclones in the northwest Pacific, scientists said Tuesday. Winter cyclones in latitudes including northwestern China, Korea and Japan have ...
Tags: Service, Air Pollution
Creating Smart Road-light circle could be the original necessary step towards developing a smart Location. The road - the structural foundation is created by lighting required for a superior control over lighting, security and other ...
Tags: Smart street lighting, LED
Demand grows due to battle against effects of higher levels of air pollution China's dependency on imported natural gas is expected to surge almost 19 percent this year as the nation's battle against air pollution drives up demand for the ...
Tags: Gas Imports, Mineral
Plumes of several anthropogenic pollutants (especially particulate matter and carbon monoxide) located near ground level over China have for the first time been detected from space. The work was carried out by a team at the Laboratoire ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
Today, the LED lighting experts at LEDtronics®, Inc., www.LEDtronics.com, announced that their LED Cobraheads Streetlight Fixtures helped NRG reduce energy consumption by over 72% and decrease light pollution in the local area. LED ...
Globally thousand tons of waste material release but we ignore it and consider as waste material but we do not know that these waste is how much important. No doubt after industrialization more and more industries established, due to that ...
Tags: Manufacturing, Processing Machinery, Biomass Briquette Plant
Scientists said on Friday they had mapped ground-level air pollution in China from space for the first time, a feat that should help the fight against a notorious health hazard. French and Belgian atmospheric scientists used an infrared ...
Tags: Pollution, China's Pollution
The chemical spill that contaminated water for hundreds of thousands of West Virginians is just the latest and most high-profile case of coal polluting the nation's waters. An Associated Press analysis of federal environmental data found ...
Tags: Coal, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Water
The price of iron ore is predicted to drop this year as growth of China's steel production slows and the supply of raw materials from international mining giants increases, according to industry experts. An estimate from UBS AG earlier ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Raw Materials
This week a new study published in Nature and co-authored by Drs. Chris Moore and Daniel Obrist of Nevada's Desert Research Institute establishes, for the first time, a link between Arctic sea ice dynamics and the region's changing ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics