News tagged with airborne pollutants
China orders nationwide emission cuts by 2015
China on Tuesday ordered local governments to reduce emissions of "major pollutants" by as much as 10 percent by 2015, amid growing public anxiety over the country's bad air.
Dec 20, 2011 |
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Beijing hits 'blue sky' target despite bad air
Beijing authorities said they had met their target of "blue sky" days for 2011, amid growing public criticism that officials are underplaying the pollution problem in the Chinese capital.
Dec 18, 2011 |
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Researchers get new view of how water and sulfur dioxide mix
High in the sky, water in clouds can act as a temptress to lure airborne pollutants such as sulfur dioxide into reactive aqueous particulates. Although this behavior is not incorporated into today's climate-modeling ...
May 09, 2011 |
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Researchers invent next-gen device to track world's air quality
A new air-quality measuring instrument invented by Pat Arnott and Ian Arnold of the University of Nevada, Reno that is more economical, more portable and more accurate than older technologies has been licensed ...
Mar 29, 2011 |
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Living near busy roadways ups chances of allergic asthma
An international team of lung experts has new evidence from a study in shantytowns near Lima, Peru, that teens living immediately next to a busy roadway have increased risk of allergies and asthma. The odds can go up by ...
Jan 19, 2011 |
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New map provides global view of health-sapping air pollution (w/ Video)
In many developing countries, the absence of surface-based air pollution sensors makes it difficult, and in some cases impossible, to get even a rough estimate of the abundance of a subcategory of airborne ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 23, 2010 |
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Study points to key genetic driver of severe allergic asthma
Scientists have identified a genetic basis for determining the severity of allergic asthma in experimental models of the disease.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 29, 2010 |
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Warming climate means harsher smog season for California
(PhysOrg.com) -- Rising temperatures from climate change will increase ozone levels in California’s major air basins, according to a new report to the California Air Resources Board from scientists at UC Davis ...
Jul 23, 2010 |
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Large Studies Link Asthma and Air Pollution to Suicide Risk
(PhysOrg.com) -- Suicide rates increase not only as a result of mental illness, but also when there are difficulties with breathing, according to two large Asian population studies that detected the effects of air pollution ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 19, 2010 |
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Acupuncture may be an effective treatment for post-viral infection loss of smell
Traditional Chinese acupuncture (TCA), where very thin needles are used to stimulate specific points in the body to elicit beneficial therapeutic responses, may be an effective treatment option for patients who suffer from ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 01, 2010 |
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Hidden threat: Elevated pollution levels near regional airports
Scientists are reporting evidence that air pollution — a well-recognized problem at major airports — may pose an important but largely overlooked health concern for people living near smaller regional airports. ...
Nov 18, 2009 |
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Needle-free, inhalant powder measles vaccine could save thousands of lives
The first dry powder inhalable vaccine for measles is moving toward clinical trials next year in India, where the disease still sickens millions of infants and children and kills almost 200,000 annually, according ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 16, 2009 |
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Spring agricultural fires have large impact on melting Arctic
Scientists from around the world will convene at the University of New Hampshire June 2-5, 2009, to discuss key findings from the most ambitious effort ever undertaken to measure "short-lived" airborne pollutants in the Arctic ...
May 26, 2009 |
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Study warns of pollution from ships
Thousands of merchant ships chug in and out of South Florida's bustling ports each year, bringing boatloads worth of economic benefit to the region.
Mar 31, 2009 |
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Scientists offer new theory for largest known mass extinction
The largest mass extinction in the history of the earth could have been triggered off by giant salt lakes, whose emissions of halogenated gases changed the atmospheric composition so dramatically that vegetation ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 30, 2009 |
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