News tagged with photochemical smog
Allergies through ozone effects? Ozone increases allergen load
Ozone affects pollen allergens: at ozone levels typical of photochemical smog, more allergens are formed in pollen. This connection has been demonstrated in the rye plant and is now being published in the ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 23, 2010 |
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They're alive! Megacities breathe, consume energy, excrete wastes and pollute
A scientific trend to view the world's biggest cities as analogous to living, breathing organisms is fostering a deep new understanding of how poor air quality in megacities can harm residents, people living ...
Aug 18, 2009 |
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Chemists discover ozone-boosting reaction
(PhysOrg.com) -- Burning of fossil fuels pumps chemicals into the air that react on surfaces such as buildings and roads to create photochemical smog-forming chlorine atoms, UC Irvine scientists report in ...
Jul 20, 2009 |
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Summer is here and the mercury is rising… literally
Hot town, summer in the city. When it comes to air-quality advisories, city residents are no strangers, especially during the dog days of summer. But smog is made up of an array of air pollutants, including ...
Jul 15, 2009 |
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Japanese researchers develop tiny toxic smog sensor
Japanese researchers say they have developed a smog sensor the size of a finger nail that could be carried around and used to measure pollution in the air that people breathe each day.
May 29, 2008 |
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Atmospheric measuring device for understanding smog formation
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a new tool for quantitatively measuring elusive atmospheric chemicals that play a key role in the formation of photochemical smog. ...
Nov 19, 2007 |
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Methane drizzle on Saturn's moon Titan
Noted for its bizarre hydrocarbon lakes and frozen methane clouds, Saturn's largest moon, Titan, also appears to have widespread drizzles of methane, according to a team of astronomers at the University of ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 11, 2007 |
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Battlefield and terrorist explosions pose new health risks
High concentrations of nitrogen dioxide gas — inhaled for even very brief periods following fires, explosions of military munitions or detonations of terrorist devices — could cause serious lung damage, scientists reported ...
Mar 27, 2007 |
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Traffic pollution - measuring the real damage
Traffic fumes from individual vehicles are decreasing every year as engines become cleaner, but there are more vehicles on the road and the number continues to grow. The long term effects of living in urban ...
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Sep 21, 2005 |
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Nature: economic growth impacts on China's air quality
China's spectacular economic growth during the last decade has brought many benefits – and some challenges. Global atmospheric mapping of nitrogen dioxide pollution performed by ERS-2's GOME and Envisat's SCIAMACHY ...
Sep 01, 2005 |
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'Apollo Program' for hydrogen energy needed, researcher says in Science
What if all the vehicles now on the road in the United States were suddenly powered by hydrogen fuel cells? Stanford researchers say in a June 24 article in the journal Science that such a conversion would improve air qu ...
Jun 24, 2005 |
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