Posts Tagged ‘Pollution’

Smoke a Pack a Day or live in Cairo

This item was filled under [ Egypt, Say That Again ]

If you want to be notified the next time I write something, sign up for FREE email alerts or subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!A disturbing report at AlertNet describes “living in Cairo to be same as smoking a pack a day.”
I was not surprised because I’ve seen pollution with my eyes and [...]

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Study: Israel is Biggest Polluter in Eastern Mediterranean

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[Ha'artz] Israel is the biggest polluter in the eastern Mediterranean, dumping over 140 tons of heavy metals into the sea every year with government approval, an environmental group claimed in a recently published report.
According to the Zalul organization, more than 100 permits for discharging wastewater into the sea are granted by a government committee every [...]

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Jordan River Pollution

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The Jordan River, where Jesus was reportedly baptized, is now just an extra-large toilet.
Jordan River threatened by dams and sewage
By Ibon Villelabeitia, Fri Jun 24, 9:08 AM ET
Reuters
The Jordan River, where Christians believe Jesus was baptized, is heavily polluted with sewage and is in danger of drying up after decades of conflict and intense agricultural [...]

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Visualizing City Pollution

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Metphomod is a 3D visualization tool for modeling meteorology and atmospheric chemistry — that is, smog. It was used to study pollution patterns in Europe in the late 1990s, with a particular focus on the air chemistry over Grenoble and over the Swiss canton of Obwalden. The illustration at right is from work done in [...]

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Cars To Be Assembled Atom By Atom

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High-tech will make vehicles safer, more powerful and lighter.
The Detroit News says that the adoption of nanotechnology by car manufacturers will produce safer, lighter and cheaper vehicles. While GM is already using nanocomposite materials for several vans, Ford is developing new nanoengineered catalysts to replace platinum. The newspaper gives other examples, such as auto-adaptive suspension [...]

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