Air Pollution Is Reducing The Amount Of Rain in China (redOrbit) Air pollution in eastern China during the last 50 years has led to a reduction in the amount of light rainfall of almost a quarter. This is revealed by an international study conducted with support from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. [News Source]

Air pollution reducing ‘good’ rains in China: study (AFP via Yahoo! News) Air pollution has over the past 50 years led to a reduction of the light rainfall in China essential for the country's agriculture and water resources, a Chinese researcher said Monday. [News Source]

Air pollution reducing ‘good’ rains in China: Study (The Times of India) STOCKHOLM: Air pollution has over the past 50 years led to a reduction of the light rainfall in China essential for the country's agriculture and water resources, a Chinese researcher said on Monday. [News Source]

Some buildings not living up to green label. Builders covet the green LEED certification as a way to gain tax credits, attract tenants, charge premium rents and project an image of environmental responsibility. But many LEED-certified buildings do not perform as their designs predict. [News Source]

New lead poisoning scare in China: state media. Parents in southwestern China are accusing a local industrial park of causing lead poisoning in their children, state media said Monday, in the latest in a slew of similar incidents to spark public ire. [News Source]

Parents fume at factories after 200 kids sickened. Children in Kunming, capital of Southwest China's Yunnan province, have become the latest victims of a string of lead poisoning cases to hit China this month. [News Source]

CPS buses to be safer, greener. Along with a $1 million federal program that will retrofit all older buses in CPS' 1,600-bus fleet with clean-running technology in the next several months, the changes place the nation's third-largest school system on the cutting edge of safety and green technology. [News Source]

‘Clean-up protest’ outside Treasury. Climate camp activists have staged a "clean-up" protest outside the Treasury and are later heading to an airport for a flash mob demonstration. [News Source]

Green crusader goes to court for CNG. After being forced to scrap old vehicles following a Calcutta High Court order, the state government may have to answer to court over its alleged lack of initiative in bringing compressed natural gas (CNG) to the city. [News Source]

Group opposes Nucor water certification. An environmental group wants a Baton Rouge state judge to vacate the state’s recent issuance of water quality certification to Nucor Corp. for a proposed $2.1 billion pig iron mill in St. James Parish. [News Source]

Air quality suffers, schools stay closed and animals find shelter. As the Station fire spread Sunday, lives were lost; homes and dense forests were destroyed. There were other consequences as well. The fire reduced air quality to hazardous levels in foothill communities of the San Gabriel Valley and San Fernando Valley. [News Source]