The results contrast with other studies, which have found adverse effects of light pollution on wildlife.
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The impact of air pollution on heritage sites was also addressed at the conference.
Dr. Gopalakrashne Thyagarajan monitored the impact of air pollution on the Taj Mahal.
With minimal noise pollution on the empty trails, it is even easier to hear the birdcalls and smell the fragrant, colourful wildflowers.
"This does not deal with the problem at source, " says Prof Kelly, an expert on the impact of atmospheric pollution on human health.
This waste produces pollution on land, sea and air and is not always visible - it needs to be reduced not just PICKED UP.
If you go out into, say, our military and intelligence communities, they understand and are planning for the effects of carbon pollution on climate change.
Further, as an illustration of Iran's febrile mood, many Iranians blame a recent lethal rise in air pollution on the allegedly low quality of indigenous fuel.
"We are urging the government and beach managers to adopt a mandatory national scheme to provide permanent public information about storm pollution on every bathing beach, " said Mr Bell.
In 2007 the BBC visited the small hamlet of Shangba in southern China where one scientist was studying the cause and effects of pollution on the village.
Its report grades cities using, in part, the EPA's color-coded Air Quality Index, as well as its own weighting system that ranks the severity of pollution on a daily basis.
Across the country, special fares were on offer in operation on public transport, exhibitions will show the effect of pollution on people and buildings, and new non-polluting types of transport will be on display.
She outlined the reasons for a more cautious approach, which included the ban or moratorium placed on fracking in other countries, concerns cited by NI Water for the effect of pollution on water supply, and the dangers of well blowouts and earth tremors.
Although he cannot definitely rule out a direct effect by the pollution on the birds' metabolism of the yellow pigment, or its incorporation into their feathers, the correlation between a shortage of caterpillars and faded plumage is strong evidence of a link between pollution, diet and bird colour.
The debate over air pollution and, more specifically, the regulation of air pollution, raged on this week as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) watered down its cross-state pollution rule and House Republicans moved to delay new rules on toxic air pollution from cement plants, solid waste incinerators, and industrial boilers.
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Journalists push to report honestly on pollution disasters, and lawyers bravely take cases on behalf of pollution victims.
In 2001, for example, he signed bills that raised the sales tax on fireworks and even signed an air pollution tax on the purchase or rental of diesel equipment.
The impact of high air-pollution levels on long-term health weighs on Chinese and foreigners alike.
Coal particulate pollution, on the other hand, kills fewer than 13, 000 people per year.
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Until recently, determining the source of the pollution relied on little more than guesswork.
Water quality issues also create risk for companies, from stricter pollution standards on their own effluent to other entities polluting water upstream, requiring them to clean up water prior to use.
For cadmium to be evident in rice grains as well, the soil in which it was grown must have been especially highly polluted, said Jonathan Wong, a Hong Kong biology professor who has studied soil pollution extensively on the mainland.
For pollution levels, we used information from the American Lung Association's "State of the Air: 2007" report, which ranked the most polluted metropolitan areas by year-round particle pollution based on data submitted by states to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for 2003-05.
And it calls on the insurance sector to help our country adapt, and to tackle the problem of climate change pollution head-on.
Most people may not have this on the tip of their tongues but air pollution is even tougher on kids.
Sir John is a former head of the UK Meteorological Office, former chairman of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, and co-chaired one of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) working groups.
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Efforts to eliminate waterway dead zones and algal blooms nationwide have focused on pollution from manure.
The startling decline in wild Scottish salmon is being blamed on pollution and interbreeding between wild and farmed salmon.
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He once lunched with the French culinary master, Jacques Cousteau, in Nice whilst working on a story on pollution in the Mediterranean.
The decision to resume the Nautile's operation came as fresh incidences of pollution were reported on the coast of the French region of Brittany.
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