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Section 6: Urban Air Pollution (p. 102-) |
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online resources
"Mean
Streets: Heavy Traffic, Leukemia Linked," Lucy Chubb, Environmental
News Network, 4 March 2000 -- Children in Denver living near transportation
corridors carrying 20,000 or more vehicles per day are about six times as
likely to contract cancer, including leukemia.
- Urban Air Pollution in
World Megacities, ACE Information Programme: Air Quality & Acid Rain, 1998
- "Smog
Clouds Views, Chokes Lungs in Chilean Capital," Chris Aspin,
Environmental News Network, 10 June 2000
- Urban Air
Pollution in Australia, An Inquiry by the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences
and Engineering, 1997
- Urban Air Pollution
and Noise [in Sweden], SWEIONET
"Mexico
City Chokes on Record Air Polluyion," Lorraine Orlandi, Reuters
News Service 2 February 2000 (posted by Environmental News Service) --
"Last year, the World Resources Institute, funded by the World Health
Organization, named the city the most dangerous in the world for children in
terms of air pollution, with high levels of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide
and total suspended particulates (TSPs)."
- "Mexico
City Three-Day Alert Ends," Reuters News Service, 8 December 1998 -- "The
sprawling metropolis' 18 million inhabitants often breath air severely polluted by heavy
metals and fecal matter due to effluents from three million cars and hundreds of factories
trapped in a bowl-shaped valley..."
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