1120 GMT December 09, 2019
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Filling your house with potted plants might make you happier and more productive, but it's not going to make the air you breathe any cleaner. That is, unless you had a ludicrous number of indoor plants: Somewhere between 10 and 1,000 for every square meter of your living space, the Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology reported.
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South Korea's air passenger traffic rose 4.4 percent in the third quarter from a year earlier on growing travel demand, the Transport Ministry said Tuesday.
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Riot police in Iraq have fired live rounds into the air and used tear gas to disperse protesters, who took to the streets in the capital, Baghdad, for a second consecutive day against what they describe as unemployment and poor public services.
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Iran is planning to recapture its share of the regional and international air travel markets by developing the national air fleet and providing passengers with the opportunity to fly to different parts of the country and the world.
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Residents of Kuils River in Western Cape, who insist that nearby steel company has been polluting their air, have taken their complaints to the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC).
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Delhi residents woke to a thick, grey smog on Thursday as air pollution in the Indian capital surged to emergency levels.
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The Royal Academy of Engineering Africa prize, now in its fifth year, has shortlisted 16 African inventors from six countries to receive funding, training and mentoring for projects intended to revolutionize sectors from agriculture and science to women’s health.
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A Canadian study found that exposure to a common air pollutant during pregnancy was tied to higher odds of a child being diagnosed with autism by age five.
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Air pollution is the ‘new tobacco’, the head of the World Health Organization has warned, saying the simple act of breathing is killing seven million people a year and harming billions more.
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A passenger plane traveling from the south Indian city of Trichy to Dubai sustained damage after hitting the airport wall during takeoff.
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A flotilla of small boats rescued all 47 passengers and crew from an Air Niugini flight that crashed into the sea short of the runway at an airport in the tiny South Pacific nation of Micronesia on Friday, the airport’s manager said.
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Astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) are having to deal with an air leak from a possible collision.
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Chronic exposure to air pollution can cause harm to cognitive performance, a new study revealed.
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Spiders may lack wings, but they aren’t confined to the ground. Under the right conditions, some spider species will climb to a high point, release silk strands to form a parachute, and float away on the breeze.
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A Canadian company, backed by Bill Gates, said it has reached an important threshold in developing technology that can remove CO₂ from the air.
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