The researchers estimated that about 2.8% of heart attack deaths could be attributed to the combination of extreme temperatures and high levels of fine particulate pollution.
ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS: Hashiloni is the leader of a team of activists trying to ensure that the wind turbines are not erected close to his home further south.
The Nature and Parks Authority stressed that tar pollution causes damage to protected natural assets, including animals and flora.
A sea of plastic, the Mediterranean is the area of the world most at risk for endangered seabirds.
Some of the most popular European cities have surprisingly poor air quality.
Reducing exposure to pollution was between 40% and 80% as effective at reducing patients’ length of hospitalization as some of the best available treatments.
Tonnes of dead fish were found last summer in the river that runs along part of Germany's border with Poland, prompting Warsaw to embark on a crisis response that many scientists said came too late.
Controversial Knesset bill could put public health, environment at risk.
The Environmental Protection Ministry has called on Israelis to refrain from lighting these fires and asked them to celebrate in other ways due to their negative environmental impact.
The researchers found that communities east of Haifa have the highest number of asthma patients.
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