News tagged with ozone
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NASA Researchers Explore Lightning's NOx-ious Impact on Pollution, Climate
(PhysOrg.com) -- Every year, scientists learn something new about the inner workings of lightning. With satellites, they have discovered that more than 1.2 billion lightning flashes occur around the world ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 23, 2009 |
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Treaty to limit CO2 should be followed by similar limits on other greenhouse pollutants
When world leaders meet in Copenhagen in December to hash out a treaty limiting carbon dioxide emissions, they should begin planning a future summit to address other pollutants - from soot to ozone - that don't remain in ...
Oct 22, 2009 |
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Ozone layer depletion leveling off
By merging more than a decade of atmospheric data from European satellites, scientists have compiled a homogeneous long-term ozone record that allows them to monitor total ozone trends on a global scale - ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 21, 2009 |
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Portable and precise gas sensor could monitor pollution and detect disease
In the air, it is a serious pollutant. In the body, it plays a role in heart rate, blood flow, nerve signals and immune function. Nitric oxide, a gas well known to scientists for its myriad functions, has ...
Sep 18, 2009 |
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NASA Satellite Data Show Progress of 2009 Antarctic Ozone Hole (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- The annual ozone hole has started developing over the South Pole, and it appears that it will be comparable to ozone depletions over the past decade. This composite image from September 10 ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 16, 2009 |
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Ozone hole smaller in 2009 than 2008: WMO
The World Meteorological Organisation said Wednesday that the ozone hole is expected to be smaller in 2009 than a year ago.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 16, 2009 |
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North America backs plan to cut greenhouse gases
(AP) -- Small island nations gained North America's powerful backing Tuesday for a plan to convert the U.N. ozone treaty into a tool for phasing out some of the globe's most powerful climate-warming gases.
Sep 16, 2009 |
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Man-made crises 'outrunning our ability to deal with them,' scientists warn
The world faces a compounding series of crises driven by human activity, which existing governments and institutions are increasingly powerless to cope with, a group of eminent environmental scientists and economists has ...
Sep 11, 2009 |
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Houseplants cut indoor ozone
Ozone, the main component of air pollution, or smog, is a highly reactive, colorless gas formed when oxygen reacts with other chemicals. Although ozone pollution is most often associated with outdoor air, ...
Sep 08, 2009 |
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Ozone: Climate change boosts ultraviolet risk for high latitudes
(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at the University of Toronto have discovered that changes in the Earth's ozone layer due to climate change will reduce the amount of ultraviolet (UV) radiation in northern high ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 06, 2009 |
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What's Holding Antarctic Sea Ice Back From Melting?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Global temperatures are increasing. Sea levels are rising. Ice sheets in many areas of the world are retreating. Yet there’s something peculiar going on in the oceans around Antarctica: even ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 02, 2009 |
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New study shows nitrous oxide now top ozone-depleting emission
Nitrous oxide has now become the largest ozone-depleting substance emitted through human activities, and is expected to remain the largest throughout the 21st century, NOAA scientists say in a new study.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 27, 2009 |
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Cleaning Up Black Carbon Provides Instant Benefits Against Global Warming
(PhysOrg.com) -- The world could buy time to forestall disastrous environmental and geopolitical climate change effects by using existing technologies to curb emissions created through diesel and solid biomass ...
Aug 20, 2009 |
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Aura Marks Five Years of Sky-High Atmosphere Research
Imagine Earth without an atmosphere - without clouds, wind or air. Earth's atmosphere protects, transports, and reacts to life on Earth.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 05, 2009 |
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Even healthy lungs labor at acceptable ozone levels
Ozone exposure, even at levels deemed safe by current clean air standards, can have a significant and negative effect on lung function, according to researchers at the University of California Davis.
Jul 23, 2009 |
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