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Investor’s Business Daily reports here at Yahoo News: Last year’s Olympics in Beijing brought China to the verge of global embarrassment over its pollution problem. Only shutting down some of its factories temporarily stopped the city from choking the tourists and athletes.

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BBC News reports here: An oil trading firm has agreed to pay more than $45m (£27m) compensation to people in Ivory Coast who say they were made ill by dumped waste in 2006.

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BBC News reports here: The birth defect rate rose again in the Chinese capital Beijing last year, mirroring increases elsewhere in the country, according to figures.

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Time.com reports here at Yahoo News: Adding to the burgeoning evidence that air quality may have a direct impact on heart health, a new study finds a measurable increase in blood pressure due to traffic pollution.

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Understanding Environmental Pollution: A Primer

Introducing pollution issues to students and others with little scientific background, this new edition of a well-received textbook has been completely revised and updated. Starting with the definition of pollution and how pollutants behave, it progresses to covering air and water pollution basics, pollution and global change, solid waste, and pollution [...]

Cleaner Seine brings wild salmon back, BBC News reports here: Wild salmon are returning to the French capital for the first time in almost a century, scientists say.

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CNN reports here: It is a problem of massive plastic proportions — a giant floating debris field, composed mostly of bits and pieces of plastic, in the northwest Pacific Ocean, about a thousand miles off the coast of California.

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