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India, Home to the World’s Most Polluted City, Launches Air Quality Index

India, Home to the World’s Most Polluted City, Launches Air Quality Index

| April 6, 2015 Comment

India, home to the world’s most polluted city, launches air quality index – India has some of the most unhealthy air of any country in the world, with pollutants from rapid industrial growth killing an estimated 620,000 people per year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). New Delhi currently ranks as the most polluted […]

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India Doctor Blames Tainted Drugs for Deaths after Sterilization Surgery

India Doctor Blames Tainted Drugs for Deaths after Sterilization Surgery

| November 14, 2014 1 Comment

India doctor blames tainted drugs for deaths after sterilization surgery – Tainted or sub-standard drugs probably led to the deaths of 13 Indian women after sterilization surgery at a family-planning “camp”, and owners of the factories that produced them have been summoned for questioning, a senior official said on Thursday. Meanwhile, the doctor who carried […]

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Global Groundwater Crisis May Get Worse as the World Warms

Global Groundwater Crisis May Get Worse as the World Warms

| October 29, 2014 Comment

Global groundwater crisis may get worse as the world warms – From India to Texas, people are rapidly depleting their valuable stores of groundwater — leading to the possibility that aquifers may be emptied within decades, a NASA researcher has warned. In a commentary published Wednesday in the journal Nature Climate Change, Jay Famiglietti, a […]

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