Air pollution kills 1100 a year (NZPA via Yahoo!Xtra News) Air pollution from home heating, transport and industry kills nearly 1100 people prematurely and costs the nation about $1. [News Source]

China falls short on energy-saving goals.

China is falling short of its goals in a campaign to boost energy efficiency in its fuel-guzzling economy - the world’s No. 2 oil consumer - but is starting to make progress, the government said Thursday.

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Worries over NZ air quality (Newstalk via Yahoo!Xtra News) There are grim findings from fresh research into the country's air quality. [News Source]

Parks face climate threat. Climate change could have a huge effect on the Great Smoky Mountains, the Blue Ridge Parkway and other national parks, according to a report released Wednesday by the National Parks Conservation Group. [News Source]

Quintessential N.E. at risk. A new study by some of the region's top climate scientists projects that many of the things that define New England -- from knee-high snow drifts to lobster rolls -- could disappear if global warming continues at its current pace. [News Source]

Scientists offer grim outlook on New Jersey’s climate. No snow, no shade trees and no fresh air. That's North Jersey in the next century -- even if we drastically reduce our use of fossil fuels, scientists said Wednesday. [News Source]

The land of steady warming. No matter what we do to try to mitigate the effects of greenhouse gas emissions, global warming will bring these and other dramatic changes to Connecticut and the Northeast by the end of the century, said a group of scientists in a report released Wednesday. [News Source]

Scientists offer grim outlook on New Jersey’s climate. No snow, no shade trees and no fresh air. That's North Jersey in the next century -- even if we drastically reduce our use of fossil fuels, scientists said Wednesday. [News Source]

Amritsar set to go green (Indian Express via Yahoo! India News) Waking up to the depleting tree cover in the city, resultant air pollution and its ill-effects on environment and public health, the district administration today embarked on a tree-plantation drive. In keeping with this proposal, Deputy Commissioner Kahan Singh Pannu today planted saplings at a stretch near Gurdwara Shaheedan. The environmentalists in the city and tree lovers have hailed this ... [News Source]

Senators’ bill would cut greenhouse gas emissions 20% by 2030.

Power producers, refiners and steelmakers in the U.S. would be required to cut greenhouse gas emissions 20 percent by 2030 under a bill Senators Jeff Bingaman and Arlen Specter will unveil today.

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You breathe what you eat: Asthma severity linked to poor diet. A new study shows that diet may be a key culprit in asthma, a chronic swelling of the airways that affects some 20 million Americans, six million of them children. [News Source]