News tagged with air quality regulations

New EPA air quality rules outweigh costs and provide major health and environmental benefits

A report by researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health provides an expanded review of six new air quality regulations proposed or recently adopted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA). ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Long-term ozone exposure linked to higher risk of death, finds nationwide study

Long-term exposure to ground-level ozone, a major component of smog, is associated with an increased risk of death from respiratory ailments, according to a new nationwide study led by a researcher at the ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1




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Nasa's new carbon-counting instrument leaves the nest

(Phys.org) -- Its construction now complete, the science instrument that is the heart of NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) spacecraft - NASA's first mission dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 30

'Warming hole' delayed climate change over eastern United States: study

Climate scientists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have discovered that particulate pollution in the late 20th century created a "warming hole" over the eastern United States—that ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (24) | comments 197 | with audio podcast

Environmental index could save rural communities

A new approach to environmental monitoring could avert ruin for some of the world's poorest communities.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

New monitoring system clarifies murky atmospheric questions

A University of Colorado Boulder-led team has developed a new monitoring system to analyze and compare emissions from man-made fossil fuels and trace gases in the atmosphere, a technique that likely could ...

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created Apr 19, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

Use less water, producing energy and fertilizer at the same time

Clean drinking water and basic sanitation are human rights. Yet almost 780 million of the world's population still have no access to drinking water and some 2.6 billion people live without sanitary facilities. ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 18, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

AgriLife Research adds new instrumentation to measure greenhouse gases

As greenhouse gases become more of a concern, determining the actual rates of emissions through scientific data is a growing necessity, according to a Texas AgriLife Research scientist in Amarillo.

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created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Report identifies health, environmental issues and best practices

A number of health and environmental issues and related risks need to be addressed when considering whether to lift the almost 30-year moratorium on uranium mining in Virginia, says a new report from the National Research ...

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created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Lead levels in drinking water spike when copper and lead pipes joined

Lead pipes once used routinely in municipal water distribution systems are a well-recognized source of dangerous lead contamination, but new research from Washington University in St. Louis suggests that the ...

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created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

NASA gears up for airborne study of earth's radiation balance

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA scientists have successfully completed flight tests in preparation for deployment of a multi-year airborne science campaign to study the humidity and chemical composition of air entering the tropical ...

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created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Saving Da Vinci's Last Supper from air pollution

Having survived long centuries, political upheaval, and even bombings during World War II, Leonardo Da Vinci's masterpiece Last Supper now faces the risk of damage from air pollution due to its location in ...

Chemistry / Other

created Nov 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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