Study Links ‘Smog’ To Arctic Warming

Study Links ‘Smog’ To Arctic Warming
ScienceDaily (Mar. 19, 2006) — NASA scientists have found that a major form of global air pollution involved in summertime “smog” has also played a significant role in warming the Arctic.

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Edmonton motorists spend 5K hours at drive-thrus

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Amanda Dacyk from the University of Alberta speaks with Canada AM from CTV studios in Edmonton on Wednesday, May 30, 2007.

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A new study from the University of Alberta has found that in Edmonton alone, motorists spend 5,000 hours each day idling [...]

Linking land use with household vehicle emissions in the central puget sound: methodological framework and findings

Lawrence D. Frank, , Brian Stone, Jr. and William Bachman

City & Regional Planning Program, Georgia Institute of Technology, 245 4th St. NW, Atlanta, GA 30332-0155, USA

Available online 21 February 2000.

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A leading cause of [...]

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The University of Alberta in Edmonton is one of the top 100 teaching and research universities in the world serving some 37,000 students with more than 11,000 faculty and staff. Founded a century ago, the university has an annual budget in excess of $1 billion and attracts more than $480 [...]

From the TDL Group – RWDI Study

From the TDL Group (Tim Horton’s): Tim Horton’s is Licensed by TDL Group Ltd which is owned by Wendy’s International which a U.S. company.

The RWDI study would have us believe that customers are being more environmental by sitting in a drive-thru and idling than they are to park and walk in. In [...]

Two Extraordinary Papers on Health

This is extraordinary… worth the quick-see read. It is of value because of the doctors options to see exercise as a need and that the current urban environment is just not being correctly adjusted to promote exercise and health. Beautiful presentation.
This goes to the core of one of the other options that an [...]

Study links traffic pollution to thousands of deaths

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This article was first published on guardian.co.uk on Tuesday April 15 2008. It was last updated at 16:13 on April 15 2008.

A Birmingham university report has identified a ’strong correlation’ between deaths by pneumonia and traffic emissions in England. Photograph: Andy Butterton/PA
Thousands of people [...]