News tagged with ozone pollution

Portable gas sensors improve atmospheric pollution measurements

Different types of compact, low-power portable sensors under development by three independent research groups may soon yield unprecedented capabilities to monitor ozone, greenhouse gases, and air pollutants. ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Lung doctors expect respiratory diseases will worsen with global climate change

Worldwide increases in the incidences of asthma, allergies, infectious and cardiovascular diseases will result from a variety of impacts of global climate change, including rising temperatures, worsening ozone levels in urban ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Asian emissions contribute to air pollution in western United States: study

As Asian countries develop, they are emitting more ozone precursors that pollute surface level air. Many studies have documented this pollution being carried by air currents to the western United States. To learn more about ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Experts call for cleaner air to tackle invisible killer

Urgent action is needed to reduce the high concentrations of dangerous air pollutants in Europe, according to experts writing in the European Respiratory Journal today (1 March 2012).

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Environment Canada cuts threaten science, international agreements

Recent cuts to the scientific workforce of Environment Canada, a government agency responsible for meteorological services and environmental research, threaten scientific research related to the ozone layer in the upper atmosphere ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Food crops damaged by pollution crossing continents

(PhysOrg.com) -- Man-made air pollution from North America causes Europe to lose 1.2 million tonnes of wheat a year, a new study has found.

Biology / Other

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (17) | comments 21 | with audio podcast

Low temperatures enhance ozone degradation above the Arctic

Extraordinarily cold temperatures in the winter of 2010/2011 caused the most massive destruction of the ozone layer above the Arctic so far: The mechanisms leading to the first ozone hole above the North Pole ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Record air pollution hammers Calif's ag heartland

(AP) -- This is the time of year when residents who often live with the nation's worst pollution often can draw a breath of fresh air. But this winter has not been kind to people who want to play outside ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Aura detects pollution in the Great Lakes region

(PhysOrg.com) -- Fires throughout Ontario are generating pollution that is showing up in data from NASA's Aura Satellite in the Great Lakes region.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 25, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Climate change increases the risk of ozone damage to plants

Ground-level ozone is an air pollutant that harms humans and plants. Both climate and weather play a major role in ozone damage to plants. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have now shown that climate change ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 30, 2011 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

European research effort improves understanding of impacts of aerosols on climate

Atmospheric aerosol particles (otherwise known as Particulate Matter) have been masking the true rate of greenhouse gas induced global warming during the industrial period. New investigations show that the aerosol cooling ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 29, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New website to monitor greenhouse gases

An Australian research institute on Monday launched a website that allows the public to monitor greenhouse gas emissions in the southern hemisphere.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 20, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

The skinny on how shed skin reduces indoor air pollution

Flakes of skin that people shed at the rate of 500 million cells every day are not just a nuisance — the source of dandruff, for instance, and a major contributor to house dust. They actually can be beneficial. A new ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

L.A., Bakersfield remain among U.S.'s most polluted cities, report says

Smog and soot levels have dropped significantly in Southern California over the last decade, but the Los Angeles region still has the highest levels of ozone nationwide, violating federal health standards an average of 137 ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Night games in sports stadiums and street lighting can cause spike in daytime ozone air pollution

Brightly-lit Cowboys Stadium during Sunday's Super Bowl XLV may symbolize one of the hottest new pieces of scientific intelligence about air pollution: Researchers have discovered — in a classic case of scientific serendipity ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3