Stocks & Currency (Manila Bulletin) HONG KONG (Reuters) — Singapore has retained its status as the best location for expatriates in Asia while Hong Kong has fallen behind Tokyo because of bad air pollution, an annual survey released on Wednesday shows. [News Source]

Now, a project to nail global air polluters (The Times of India) PUNE: It will soon be easier to call the bluff of countries that point a finger at us for the deterioration in the quality of the air we breathe. India has long been blamed for air pollution when scientists here have maintained that developed countries are bigger culprits on this front. [News Source]

China to Overhaul Air-Pollution, Smog Index, Morning Post Says (Bloomberg) March 12 (Bloomberg) -- China plans to overhaul its air-pollution standards to better monitor smog, the South China Morning Post said, citing Zhang Lijun, vice-minister of environmental protection. [News Source]

ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Long-Term Ozone Exposure and Mortality (New England Journal of Medicine) The effect of long-term exposure to tropospheric ozone on air pollution-related mortality was examined in an analysis of data from almost 500,000 subjects over a period of 18 years. Ozone concentrations were not associated with the rate of death from any cause or, when concentrations of fine particulate matter were taken into account, with the rate of death from cardiopulmonary causes. However, ... [News Source]

Air Pollution Dangerous, but Deadly? (WebMD) Long-term exposure to ground-level ozone -- which, along with particulate matter, is a major component of smog -- significantly increases the risk of death from respiratory problems, a new study shows. [News Source]

Cleaning up the dirtiest fossil fuel: One company’s coal fix (Scientific American) BOSTON (March 11, 2009) -- In most discussions of energy and climate, coal figures prominently as one of the villains. Burning coal is responsible for more than a third of all energy-related U.S. carbon dioxide emissions and 80 percent of those from electricity production. It is also one of the largest contributors of air pollution, acid rain and even toxic environmental mercury. But because ... [News Source]