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Adopting benchmarks similar to the fuel-efficiency standards used by the auto industry in the production of fertilizer could yield $5-8 billion in economic benefits for the U.S. corn sector alone, researchers have concluded.Monday, October 15, 2018 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) leads to extreme climatic variations called El Niño and La Niña that cause dangerous weather conditions in many regions throughout the world. Currently, a reliable forecast of the ENSO phases can be...Monday, October 15, 2018 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Shelled marine creatures living in increasingly acidified oceans face a fight for survival as the impacts of climate change spread, a new study suggests.Friday, October 12, 2018 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Researchers have measured more than 19,000 tropical moths from 1,100 species to find out whether their size varies with elevation. The researchers found clear patterns: moths increase in size significantly at higher elevations.Friday, October 12, 2018 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Century-scale climate variability was enhanced when the Earth was warmer during the Last Interglacial period (129,000-116,000 years ago) compared to the current interglacial (the last 11,700 years), according to a new study.Friday, October 12, 2018 from AirQualityNews
Funding support for purchases of electric vehicles is to be reduced or stopped altogether for some categories but will run... The post Plug-in grant to focus on zero emission cars appeared first on Air Quality News .Friday, October 12, 2018 from AirQualityNews
Southampton city council has signed up to Oxford’s Cleaner Air Charter, an initiative launched in August 2018 by Oxford city... The post Southampton joins Oxford in demanding clean air action appeared first on Air Quality News .Friday, October 12, 2018 from AirQualityNews
Gas supplier Calor is set to showcase its alternative fuels at the 2018 Freight in the City Expo in London... The post Calor to showcase alternative fuels at 2018 Freight Expo appeared first on Air Quality News .Thursday, October 11, 2018 from AirQualityNews
British retailer, Hovis, has introduced all-electric vehicles to its fleet for deliveries up and down the country. The announcement was... The post Hovis launches all-electric delivery vehicles appeared first on Air Quality News .Thursday, October 11, 2018 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Researchers have developed new photocatalyst synthesis method using Magnesium hydride (MgH2) and Titanium dioxide (TiO2). The result is expected to contribute to hydrogen mass production through the development of photocatalyst that...Thursday, October 11, 2018 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
A 2016 study showed that exposure to urban pollution involving magnetite particles played a role in the development of Alzheimer's disease. It began from the hypothesis that magnetite particles would generate chemical reactions that...Thursday, October 11, 2018 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
A new study has utilized a novel method to estimate long-term ozone exposure and previously reported epidemiological results to quantify the health burden from long-term ozone exposure in three major regions of the world. The research...Thursday, October 11, 2018 from Water - Air Quality / Agriculture News From Medical News Today
There are several risk factors associated with mouth cancer. A recent study conducted in Taiwan might add another to the list: air pollution.Wednesday, October 10, 2018 from AirQualityNews
The Air Quality & Emissions show returns to the Telford International Centre next month (21 – 22 November). The 2018... The post AQE 2018 preview appeared first on Air Quality News .Wednesday, October 10, 2018 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Poleward transport of warm, moist, and dust-laden air masses from the Sahara Desert results in ice melting in southeast Greenland, scientists have found.Tuesday, October 9, 2018 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
High levels of air pollutants, especially fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and to a lesser extent, ozone, may be linked to a heightened risk of developing mouth cancer, suggests the first study of its kind.Tuesday, October 9, 2018 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
New research finds that when westerly winds in the Antarctic Ocean strengthen during the austral summer (October to February), surface waters in the region acidify faster than can be accounted for by increases in carbon dioxide from the...Tuesday, October 9, 2018 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
A new study suggests that New York City-area wetlands are capable of using CSO inputs in a manner that actually increases greenhouse gas emissions such as carbon dioxide and methane.Tuesday, October 9, 2018 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
The 1972 Clean Water Act has driven significant improvements in US water quality, according to the first comprehensive study of water pollution over the past several decades. The team analyzed data from 50 million water quality...Tuesday, October 9, 2018 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
The amount of plastic washing up onto the shores of remote South Atlantic islands is 10 times greater than it was a decade ago, according to new research. Scientists investigating plastics in seas surrounding the remote British Overseas...Tuesday, October 9, 2018 from AirQualityNews
One of the organisers of the Clean Air Day campaign has called for a national, coordinated public engagement strategy for... The post Treasury urged to fund clean air engagement strategy appeared first on Air Quality News .Tuesday, October 9, 2018 from AirQualityNews
Defra officials are working out what “tweaks” to make to the Clean Air Strategy before the final version is published... The post Final Clean Air Strategy due by end of 2018 appeared first on Air Quality News .Tuesday, October 9, 2018 from AirQualityNews
Defra has launched a consultation on plans to create a national central database which will help local authorities identify taxis... The post Defra launches consultation on taxi database appeared first on Air Quality News .Monday, October 8, 2018 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Water quality is threatened by a long history of fertilizer use on land, scientists find.Monday, October 8, 2018 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Limiting global warming to 1.5°C would require rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society, according to the latest report from the world's leading body of climate change experts.Sunday, October 7, 2018 from AirQualityNews
Councils and the taxi trade have been offered guidance on the latest low emission technologies, infrastructure and policy options available... The post Councils and taxi trade offered guidance on low emission models appeared first on Air...Friday, October 5, 2018 from AirQualityNews
Ten local authorities have been directed to take further steps to address nitrogen dioxide emissions from road transport, under supplementary... The post Ministers issue direction for next steps in NO2 plan appeared first on Air Quality...Thursday, October 4, 2018 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Scientists were able to record a sudden outburst of a glacial lake with seismometers deployed the year before in the wake of the catastrophic Ghorka earthquake in April 2015. The authors of a new study argue that such major flood events...Thursday, October 4, 2018 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Depending on how wind turbines are situated relative to each other and to the prevailing wind, those not directly in the path of the wind could be left to extract energy from significantly depleted airflow. However, according to...Thursday, October 4, 2018 from ScienceDaily: Air Pollution News
A study examined the release of vapors from gas station vent pipes, finding emissions were 10 times higher than estimates used in setback regulations used to determine how close schools, playgrounds, and parks can be situated to the...Thursday, October 4, 2018 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
The first broad-scale assessment of ocean-based measures to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide, counteract ocean warming and/or reduce ocean acidification and sea-level rise shows their high potential to mitigate climate change and its...Thursday, October 4, 2018 from ScienceDaily: Air Pollution News
Engineers conducted a study to determine if homeowners change the way they live if they could visualize the air quality in their house.Wednesday, October 3, 2018 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Researchers have made a breakthrough in carbon nanotube technology that removes carbon dioxide from the air and converts it into useful chemicals.Wednesday, October 3, 2018 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
The Industrial Revolution brought about many things: the steam engine, the factory system, mass production. But not, apparently, more wildfires. Actually, the opposite. A new study finds that emissions from fire activity were...Tuesday, October 2, 2018 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Light-absorbing brown carbon aerosols, emitted by wildfires, remain longer in the atmosphere than expected, which could have implications for climate predictions.Tuesday, October 2, 2018 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
A perovskite solar module the size of an A4 sheet of paper, which is nearly six times bigger than modules of that type reported before, has been developed by using simple and low-cost printing techniques.Monday, October 1, 2018 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Researchers studied nitrogen levels in the skeleton of a 130-year-old brain coral living 620 miles from the North American mainland and found that the nitrogen from human sources was less than had been estimated.High carbon dioxide levels cause plants to thicken their leaves, could worsen climate change effects
Monday, October 1, 2018 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
When levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere rise, most plants do something unusual: They thicken their leaves. Now scientists have shown that this reaction by plants will actually worsen climate change by making the global 'carbon...Monday, October 1, 2018 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
When invasive species enter the picture, things are rarely black and white. A new article has revealed that some plant invaders could help fight climate change by making it easier for ecosystems to store 'blue carbon' -- the carbon...Friday, September 28, 2018 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Growing and harvesting bioenergy crops -- corn for ethanol or trees to fuel power plants, for example -- is a poor use of land, which is a precious resource in the fight against climate change, says a researcher.Friday, September 28, 2018 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
The Coriolis effect impacts global patterns and currents, and its magnitude, relative to the magnitude of inertial forces, is expressed by the Rossby number. For over 100 years, scientists have believed that the higher this number, the...Friday, September 28, 2018 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Nanoparticles derived from green mango peel could be the key to remediating oil sludge in contaminated soil according to new research.Thursday, September 27, 2018 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
A new and quick way to predict the transport of chemicals through the soil has been developed.Thursday, September 27, 2018 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Engineers have invented a high-performance exterior PDRC polymer coating with nano-to-microscale air voids that acts as a spontaneous air cooler and can be fabricated, dyed, and applied like paint on rooftops, buildings, water tanks,...Thursday, September 27, 2018 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Coral reefs can be rehabilitated over large scales using a relatively inexpensive technique.Wednesday, September 26, 2018 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Stronger efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions should be undertaken to avoid global warming of more than 1.5 degrees Celsius -- without relying on potentially more expensive or risky technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the...Wednesday, September 26, 2018 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Severe weather events, such as summer hurricanes, tornadoes, and winter snow storms often result in widespread and prolonged power outages, interrupting essential household functions, including home heating. An emergency medicine...Wednesday, September 26, 2018 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Manta rays strain their tiny food from mouthfuls of seawater in a novel way that could hold the key to better filtration in a variety of commercial applications, new research shows.Wednesday, September 26, 2018 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
One of the major sources of uncertainty about the future climate is whether ecosystems will continue to take up carbon dioxide or release it to the atmosphere. Researchers confronted this problem using atmospheric measurements and...Wednesday, September 26, 2018 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
The Sherpa people of the Himalayas have long been recognized for their unique ability to excel physically in the thin air of higher altitudes. But new research now suggests that their specially adapted muscles give them up to twice the...