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   Pollution

   Motor vehicle emissions are one of the leading causes of air pollution. ... Water pollution causes approximately 14,000 deaths per day, mostly due to contamination of drinking water by untreated sewage in developing countries.
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   Global dimming

   Increased pollution causes more particulates and thereby creates clouds consisting of a greater number of smaller droplets (that is, the same amount of water is spread over more droplets). ... Causes
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   Environment of China

   Water pollution is a source of health problems across the country, and air pollution causes up to 1,750,000 premature deaths each year. ... Respiratory and heart diseases related to air pollution are the leading cause of death in China.
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   Air pollution

   Direct causes of air pollution related deaths include aggravated asthma, bronchitis, emphysema, lung and heart diseases, and respiratory allergies.
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   Global warming

   Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has called on the nation to redouble its efforts to tackle pollution and global warming. ... Climate change feedbacks and causes
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   Black carbon

   These reductions will unmask warming by other agents, such as black carbon, which these cooling aerosols currently help to offset. ... By reducing black carbon, a primary component of fine particulate matter, the health risks from air pollution will decline.
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   Thermal pollution

   A common cause of thermal pollution is the use of water as a coolant by power plants and industrial manufacturers. ... Ecological effects — warm water
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   Air pollution dispersion terminology

   Sources may be characterized as either urban or rural because urban areas constitute a so-called heat island and the heat rising from an urban area causes the atmosphere above an urban area to be more turbulent than the atmosphere above a rural area. ... Air pollution
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   Wild fisheries of the world

   Significant wild fisheries have collapsed or are in danger of collapsing, due to overfishing and pollution. ... The region remains ice-free due to the warm and saline Norwegian Atlantic Current.
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    Smog

    Natural causes ... Measures like CNG-run buses and Delhi Metro have decreased the pollution-level of the city

Explore the following pages on Powerset:

• Pollution,
• Global dimming,
• Environment of China,
• Air pollution,
• Global warming,
• Black carbon,
• Thermal pollution,
• Air pollution dispersion terminology,
• Wild fisheries of the world,
• Smog