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]

Climate change: combating the enemy within. Observers believe Nigeria's development is climate constrained. From rapidly expanding desert in the North to recurrent floods, erosion and ocean surge in the South, climatic change represents a clear and present danger. [News Source]

Walk this way – urge ’sustainable development.’ While developers have oversupplied single-family detached homes with backyards, buyers looking for a home within walking distance of jobs, services, good schools, parks and public transit have few options in this state. [News Source]

Congress endangers Clean Air Act. Several sections of the House version of the American Clean Energy and Security Act require correction by the Senate, perhaps none with as much imperative as ACES' limiting of the scope of the 1970 Clean Air Act. [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]

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]

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]

‘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]

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]