Do you wear runners, drink coffee or own a mobile phone? The chances are that these products cruised to you on a ship. In 2015, the global merchant fleet carried a record 10 billion tonnes of cargo, a 2.1% increase from the ...
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Apr 11, 2017
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has studied the effects of coal-fired power plant emissions on premature mortality, nonfatal heart attacks, hospital and emergency room visits, acute bronchitis, upper and lower ...
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Apr 4, 2017
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Volcanoes erupt, they spew ash, their scarred flanks sometimes run with both lava and landslides. But only occasionally. A less dramatic but important process is continuous gas emissions from volcanoes; in other words, as ...
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Mar 9, 2017
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Sniffing volcano breath may improve forecasts of eruptionsNew tools measure volcanic carbon dioxide added to atmosphere
Earth Sciences
Oct 6, 2016
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Using a new satellite-based method, scientists at NASA, Environment and Climate Change Canada, and two universities have located 39 unreported and major human-made sources of toxic sulfur dioxide emissions.
Environment
Jun 1, 2016
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Many studies have shown that raising cattle and pigs for food is hard on the environment, and fish has long been considered a better alternative.
Environment
Mar 18, 2016
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Between 1990 and 2010, global mercury emissions from manmade sources declined 30 percent, according to a new study by the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Peking University, the U.S. ...
Environment
Jan 15, 2016
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued its long-awaited draft regulations on carbon emissions from U.S. power plants, which would require a 30 percent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions from 2005 levels ...
Environment
Jun 4, 2014
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Setting strong standards for climate-changing carbon emissions from power plants would provide an added bonus – reductions in other air pollutants that can make people sick; damage forests, crops, and lakes; and harm fish ...
Environment
May 27, 2014
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The ineffectiveness of regulatory authorities and inconsistencies in pollution licensing of Australia's lead smelting towns of Mount Isa and Port Pirie are examined in detail in a new article published this week in Aeolian ...
Environment
May 2, 2014
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