Lawsuit: Asbestos, mold, fumes make fire station hazardous
A firefighter says asbestos, mold and toxic fumes inside a fire station in Alabama's largest city have sickened him and other firefighters.
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Dec 31, 2019
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Barrels of ancient Antarctic air aim to track history of rare gas
Ancient air samples from one of Antarctica's snowiest ice core sites may add a new molecule to the record of changes to Earth's atmosphere over the past century and a half, since the Industrial Revolution began burning fossil ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 13, 2019
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Scientists discover abundance of plastic built up in sea ice collected in the Arctic's Northwest Passage
A research team, led by the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography, recently returning from a groundbreaking, 18-day expedition aboard the Swedish Icebreaker Oden has made a discovery related to plastics ...
Environment
Aug 15, 2019
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New innovative statistical tool improves pollution control in cities
Recent research has studied the relation between environmental pollution and climate change, and suggests the use of covariables to establish sampling points that are representative of the quality of air in urban surroundings
Environment
Jul 5, 2019
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Exposure to airborne metal pollution associated with increased risk of mortality
Although there is ample evidence that air pollution—specifically airborne particulate matter—is associated with an increased risk of premature death, it is still not known which specific particles are responsible for ...
Environment
May 30, 2019
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Study reveals fate of indoor chemical emissions, including unexpected buildup of lactic acid from sweat
Lactic acid—the main chemical in human sweat—leaves our skin, travels through the air, and sticks to our walls. And according to a team of chemists who outfitted the University of Colorado Art Museum with state-of-the-art ...
Environment
May 6, 2019
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Long-term study shows atmospheric biome fluctuates by season
A team of researchers with the LTER Environmental Monitoring Observatory in the Aigüestortes National Park in Spain has found that there is seasonal variation in atmospheric microbes. In their paper published in Proceedings ...
Air quality research could improve public health in West Africa
Research that models nearly 60 years of air quality in West Africa could lend insights into better forecasting a hazard that affects more than 350 million people in the region, according to an international team of researchers.
Earth Sciences
Nov 9, 2018
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What's in the air? There's more to it than we thought
Yale researchers have found that a type of air pollution is much more complicated than previous studies indicated.
Materials Science
Nov 2, 2018
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Reaction of plants to drought can be seen in the composition of the atmosphere
Hot and dry periods, such as this summer in Europe, appear to change the composition of the atmosphere. Researchers from Wageningen University & Research and NOAA discovered a 'signal' in the composition of CO2 in the atmosphere ...
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Aug 30, 2018
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