Before the United States 1970 Clean Air Act, rainfall all over the country was acidic. As precipitation would fall from the sky, it would mix with gases from industrial plants, emissions from cars, and especially coal and ...
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Feb 3, 2020
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A firefighter says asbestos, mold and toxic fumes inside a fire station in Alabama's largest city have sickened him and other firefighters.
Environment
Dec 31, 2019
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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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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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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