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Sunday, May 31, 2015

DANGER OF NEW DELHI AIR: "Holding Your Breath in India" - NYTimes.com

'"...
a professor of preventive medicine at the
University of Southern California. He is the co-
author of a landmark 2004 study showing that
children raised in parts of Los Angeles — where
pollution levels are a fraction of Delhi's — face
significant and probably permanent losses of
lung function. Even children who move to less
polluted places during childhood never seem to
entirely recover from earlier high pollution
exposures, another study found..."
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/05/31/opinion/sunday/holding-your-breath-in-india.html

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

"Galapagos Islands volcano erupts for first time in 33 years"

"...
Ecuador's Galapagos National Park administration said
the 1.7 kilometre-high Wolf volcano began spewing fire,
smoke and lava before dawn Monday..."

http://www.cbc.ca/m/touch/world/story/1.3087495