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Chemists have developed a novel way to capture and convert carbon dioxide into methane, suggesting that future gas emissions could be converted into an alternative fuel using electricity from renewable sources.Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from AirQualityNews
Active Travel England and the Department for Transport have published guidance to help local authorities in England set up and run School Street schemes. More than 180 school streets around the country have already benefitted from...Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from AirQualityNews
The revised legislation means Europe is now on track to deliver healthier air as the agreement imposes stricter limits on pollutants including particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide. Each year air pollution cuts short the lives of...Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from AirQualityNews
Tim Dexter is the Clean Air Lead for Asthma Lung UK, overviewing their campaigns, policy and influencing projects related to air pollution. Tim is currently focused on campaigns to influence national government policy, alongside regional...Tuesday, November 19, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Energy stored in thermochemical materials can effectively heat indoor spaces, particularly in humid regions, according to researchers.Tuesday, November 19, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
A new study measuring access to nature for eight major global cities found most still have inadequate canopy cover, despite access to an abundance of trees.Tuesday, November 19, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Researchers have developed a new crystalline material that can harvest water from fog without any energy input. The design of the novel type of smart crystals, which the researchers named Janus crystals, is inspired by desert plants and...Tuesday, November 19, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
A few years back, a group of weed scientists showed that soil-applied herbicides are less effective against agricultural weeds in the context of our changing climate. Now, the same research group has shown the same is true of...Tuesday, November 19, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Researchers employ machine learning to more accurately model the boundary layer wind field of tropical cyclones. Conventional approaches to storm forecasting involve large numerical simulations run on supercomputers incorporating...Tuesday, November 19, 2024 from AirQualityNews
Exposures to certain chemicals, contained in common products such as those used for cleaning and personal care during pregnancy, has been found to increase the likelihood of asthma in children. Alkylphenol ethoxylates (APEs)are a...Tuesday, November 19, 2024 from AirQualityNews
Denmark is to become the first country in the world to attempt to reduce emissions from agriculture by taxing farmers on methane emissions. The country has also pledged to buy land from farmers to plant 250,000 hectares of new forest The...Monday, November 18, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Phosphorus, a nutrient in soil essential for sustaining most forms of life, is increasingly disappearing from land as it is washed into waterways throughout the United States, according to a new study.Monday, November 18, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Alongside carbon dioxide, methane is a key driver of global warming. To detect and monitor the climate pollutants in the atmosphere precisely, scientists have developed an advanced laser technology. A high-power ytterbium thin-disk laser...Monday, November 18, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
A new study found that specific insecticides, called neonicotinoids, were found at high concentrations in some ground and surface water sources that could affect drinking water.Monday, November 18, 2024 from AirQualityNews
A new study by Transport & Environment has revealed that the emissions savings of ships running on liquified fossil natural gas (LNG) are much less than assumed by the EU’s green shipping fuels law (FuelEU Maritime). Those laws...Monday, November 18, 2024 from AirQualityNews
It is known that people suffering from conditions such as heart disease tend to suffer during spikes in air pollution, but new research shows that for those people, cardiac inflammation levels actually rise during particularly bad air...Monday, November 18, 2024 from AirQualityNews
In the latest attempt to counter the misinformation surrounding electric vehicles, Auto Trader, ChargeUK and the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), have come together in an attempt to educate the motorist about the...Saturday, November 16, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Pollution News
Clinical visits by patients suffering ocular surface eye conditions more than doubled during times when ambient particulate matter from air pollution was in the atmosphere, signaling a possible association between climate change and...Friday, November 15, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Pollution News
Rainforest protection is not only good for biodiversity and the climate -- it also noticeably improves the health of humans who live in the corresponding regions. Researchers show that measures to combat slash-and-burn techniques...Friday, November 15, 2024 from AirQualityNews
In response to the long-standing criticism of wind turbines – that they are extremely difficult to recycle – Vattenfall have been exploring how to provide a second-life for these huge structures. At last...Thursday, November 14, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
A new study determines that just four policies can reduce mismanaged plastic waste -- plastic that isn't recycled or properly disposed of and ends up as pollution -- by 91% and plastic-related greenhouse gasses by one-third. The policies...Thursday, November 14, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Capturing carbon dioxide from the hot industrial exhaust of cement and steel plants requires cooling the exhaust from around 200 C to 60 C so that liquid amines can react with the CO2. Chemists have now created a new type of...Thursday, November 14, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
'Cool' white lights -- such as those in modern car headlights -- endanger moths by causing them to fly erratically, new research shows.Wednesday, November 13, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Pollution News
People living in areas with higher levels of air pollution are more likely to have eczema, according to a new study.Wednesday, November 13, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Glaciers that are within three miles of a volcano move nearly 50% quicker than average, a new study has found, which could help create early warning of future eruptions.Wednesday, November 13, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
A new electrode design developed at MIT boosts the efficiency of electrochemical reactions that turn carbon dioxide into ethylene and other products.Wednesday, November 13, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Extreme weather from climate change, including droughts and heavy rains, may increase the risk of nitrates from fertilizers ending up in groundwater.Tuesday, November 12, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Pollution News
A recent study correlates higher levels of pollutant particulate matter to higher occurrences of head and neck aerodigestive cancer.Tuesday, November 12, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Disrupted sleep cycles are a well known concern for human health and function, and now researchers have found similar impacts on insects. A new study has found that artificial light disrupts the circadian rhythms of honey bees and poses...Tuesday, November 12, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
An interdisciplinary team of researchers has developed a machine learning framework that uses limited water quality samples to predict which inorganic pollutants are likely to be present in a groundwater supply. The new tool allows...Tuesday, November 12, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Roughly 90 million years ago, climatic conditions in Antarctica were suitable for resin-producing trees. Researchers have now made the southernmost discovery of amber in the world.Monday, November 11, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
A new study suggests that human waste, both treated and untreated, is responsible for the waterway impairment in Delaware watersheds.Monday, November 11, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Researchers have developed a new photocatalyst that could render steam methane reforming entirely emissions-free and extend catalyst lifetimes.Friday, November 8, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
A new study paints a grim picture of how blistering heat, wildfire smoke and other extreme weather events impact Colorado's jail and prison population.Friday, November 8, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Pollution News
Atmospheric aerosol particles are essential for the formation of clouds and precipitation, thereby influencing the Earth's energy budget, water cycle, and climate. However, the origin of aerosol particles in pristine air over the Amazon...Friday, November 8, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
As air temperatures stay elevated through fall months, people may still want clothes that cool them down while outside, especially if they live in cities that stay warmer than rural landscapes. Researchers who previously demonstrated a...Thursday, November 7, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
On Sept. 26, 2024, Hurricane Helene slammed into the Gulf Coast of Florida, inducing storm surges and widespread impacts on communities in its path. At the same time, NASA's Atmospheric Waves Experiment, or AWE, recorded enormous swells...Thursday, November 7, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Scientists have spotted microplastics, tiny pieces of plastic smaller than 5 millimeters, in some of the most pristine environments on Earth, from the depths of the Mariana Trench to the snow on Mt. Everest to the mountaintop clouds of...Thursday, November 7, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
England's first seasonal spore guide offers valuable insights into the potential rise of breathing problems in summer and autumn.Thursday, November 7, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Plastic pollution exacerbates the impacts of all planetary boundaries, including climate change, ocean acidification and biodiversity loss, a new paper shows. Ahead of the final negotiations of the international Plastics Treaty,...Wednesday, November 6, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Higher temperatures caused by anthropogenic climate change turned an ordinary drought into an exceptional one that parched the American West from 2020--22. A study has found that evaporation accounted for 61% of the drought's severity,...Wednesday, November 6, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
New collaborative research has shown that using a fan in hot and humid weather reduces cardiac strain in older people, contradicting recommendations from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention in the US. The study looked at the...Tuesday, November 5, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Researchers have developed an AI-powered system that mimics the human sense of smell to detect and track toxic gases in real time. Using advanced artificial neural networks combined with a network of sensors, the system quickly...Tuesday, November 5, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
New research has shown that bio-based fibers caused higher mortality, and reduced growth and reproductivity, among earthworms -- a species critical to the health of soils globally -- than conventional plastics. It has led scientists to...Tuesday, November 5, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Hydrogen, a promising fuel, has extensive applications in many sectors. However, its safe and widespread use necessitates reliable sensing methods. While tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy (TDLAS) has proved to be an effective...Monday, November 4, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
The continuing release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere is a major driver of global warming and climate change with increased extreme weather events. Researchers have now presented a method for effectively converting carbon dioxide...Monday, November 4, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Using a sophisticated new modeling approach, researchers have estimated carbon dioxide emissions from inland waters to 22 million U.S. lakes, rivers and reservoirs. It marks the first time this approach has been applied at a continental...Friday, November 1, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Pollution News
Windblown dust from the shrinking Salton Sea harms the respiratory health of children living nearby, triggering asthma, coughing, wheezing and disrupted sleep, USC research shows. The problem is likely to intensify in a hotter climate,...Friday, November 1, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Pollution News
A new study involving 8,500 children from across the United States has revealed that a form of air pollution, largely the product of agricultural emissions, is linked to poor learning and memory performance in 9- and 10-year-olds. The...Friday, November 1, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Wastewater contains nutrients that can overfeed algae, leading to harmful algal blooms and pollution issues in the ocean and other waterways. A new study tracked how these nutrients migrate from disposal sites in the Florida Keys, and...