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Environmental News (05/02/14)

05/02/2014 — Leave a comment

1. Alaska’s ‘ice-quake’ record could shake up climate science.

Columbia icebergs-768

2. Report backs Chinese drywall health complaints

Chinese Drywall

3. Climate Change Mitigation: Assessing Strategies that Offer Potential Human Health Benefits

4. Youth anxiety on the rise amid changing climate

The natural disaster in Calgary last June made one of its victims ‘scared of another flood.’ (John Lehmann/The Globe and Mail)

5. California senate advances bill to curb antibiotics in farm animals

6. Clues to Autistic Behaviors: Exploring the Role of Endocrine Disruptors

7. Family Farmers Hold Keys to Agriculture in a Warming World

Half a billion small-scale farmers are helping pioneer sustainable techniques.

An aerial photo of a tractor harvesting wheat.
8. Mine Waste Transformed to Tap Water for 80,000 Consumers
9. ExxonMobil’s New Guinea Nightmare
How a US government loan to the oil giant enabled an environmentally destructive project plagued by lethal landslide, police repression and civil unrest.
10. Eskom is not coughing up for the pollution it causes
Eskom says retrofitting its fleet of stations to comply with environmental law would cost at least R200-billion. (Skyler Reid)
11. Live 1,000ft from roads asthmatics are told: Scientists warn of growing impact of air pollution on sufferers
Asthmatics have been warned to move away from major roadways to help with their condition (picture posed by model)
12. EPA air ‘screening level’ iffy for W.Va. MCHM cleanup
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