Dust Storms Overseas Carry Contaminants to U.S.
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Seventy-five years ago, aviator Charles Lindbergh turned the controls of his pontoon plane over to his co-pilot, wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh, while flying above Iceland. He thrust a makeshift metal arm holding a sticky glass plate from the cockpit. He wanted to see if the winds high aloft the Earth...
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Federal environmental officials have ordered the U.S. military to clean up PCBs, pesticides, metals and other contaminants at McGuire Air Force Base.
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A research chemist at a Tennessee weapons plant creates a dust rag that mops up deadly beryllium particles 20 times smaller than the naked eye can see. By the Associated Press.
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The Asian "brown cloud" of pollution is affecting weather systems globally, according to research.
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By ALEX CUKAN  Residents of Lower Manhattan caught in the toxic dust cloud after the World Trade Center collapse on Sept. 11, 2001, were told by city officials to clean their homes with a wet rag.
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Scientists looking into air quality and climate change have found pollutants from as far as Asia over New England and the Atlantic.
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It's the year 2020, and space has never been so busy. Picture this:In Earth orbit, a robotic maintenance ship skitters from one weather satellite to another, upgrading powerful optics that help meteorologists track dangerous storms.
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National data released by the US Environmental Protection Agency today reveals that several Southern California metropolitan areas have seen a sharp decrease in the amount of fine particle pollution contributing to local air quality problems over the past
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The silicon factories where a speck of dust is a big problem
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GORIMAR, Afghanistan  - On a windy day, which is   every day, the grand Industrial Village for Carpet Weaver   Returnees disappears into a storm of stinging dust whipping   across this barren plain in northern Afghanistan.
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Snow and ice storms have stranded hundreds of thousands of people Â most of them migrant workers hoping to leave for the Chinese New Year Â and more blizzards threatened Monday to wreck what for many is a rare chance to see family.
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By Diana Bowley, Bangor Daily News, Maine  Feb. 20--A back draft from a wood-fired boiler caused dust to ignite early Monday at the Vic Firth Manufacturing Corp. plant in Newport.
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A myriad of financial institutions including banks, mutual funds, insurance companies, investment firms and credit-card companies are sending work to overseas locations.
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By David Linhardt, The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Dec. 19--Smoke billowed from a pallet recycling plant near Chouteau Trafficway as thousands of wooden pallets burned for hours Monday afternoon.   The thick haze could be seen 25 miles away.
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including residents of the District of Columbia, large swaths of Maryland and much of northern Virginia -- live in areas with dangerous levels of soot
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Extreme weather, drought and spreading disease are on the horizon if something isn't done to rein in the human impact on the environment, a new study says. By the Associated Press.
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By Evan Osnos, Chicago Tribune  Dec. 18--ZHANGJIAGANG, China -- Night and day, the timber ships reach this Yangtze River port, one of the world's busiest clearinghouses for logs from every corner of the globe: Southeast Asia, the Amazon, Russia, the Congo.