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Urban Pollution Affects Cardiac Function: Initial Results in the Healthy Rat
March 17, 2010 — In the healthy rat, prolonged exposure to carbon monoxide (CO) under conditions that mimic urban pollution leads to changes to cardiac morphology and function. Compensatory mechanisms develop in ... > full story -
Urban CO2 Domes Increase Deaths, Poke Hole in Cap-and-Trade Proposal
March 16, 2010 — In the first study ever done on the local health effects of the domes of carbon dioxide that develop above cities, researchers found that the domes increase the local death rate. The result provides ... > full story -
Smell of Salt Air Surprisingly Detected a Mile High and 900 Miles Inland
March 10, 2010 — In a surprise with implications for air quality, researchers have found that chemistry involving airborne chloride, thought to be restricted to sea spray, occurs at similar rates in air above ... > full story -
Increased Solar Radiation Requires Additional CO2 Reduction of 50 Million Tonnes, Analysis Finds
March 9, 2010 — The recently observed reduction in air pollution implies that more solar radiation reaches Earth’s surface. This could lead to a far more rapid increase in Earth’s temperature in the ... > full story -
Chemicals That Eased One Environmental Problem May Worsen Another
March 3, 2010 — Chemicals that helped solve a global environmental crisis in the 1990s -- the hole in Earth's protective ozone layer -- may be making another problem -- acid rain -- worse, scientists are reporting. ... > full story -
Women More Affected Than Men by Air Pollution When Running Marathons
March 2, 2010 — Findings come from a comprehensive study that evaluated marathon race results, weather data, and air pollutant concentrations in seven marathons over a period of 8 to 28 years. The top three male and ... > full story -
Dirty Air in California Causes Millions Worth of Medical Care Each Year, Study Finds
March 2, 2010 — California's dirty air caused more than $193 million in hospital-based medical care from 2005 to 2007 as people sought help for problems such as asthma and pneumonia triggered by elevated ... > full story -
Road Transportation Emerges as Key Driver of Warming in New Analysis from NASA
February 24, 2010 — For decades, climatologists have studied the gases and particles that have potential to alter Earth's climate. They have discovered and described certain airborne chemicals that can trap incoming ... > full story -
Study Measures Levels of PCBs Flowing from Indiana Canal to Air and Water
February 24, 2010 — A new study supports an earlier report that found polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in sediments lining the Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal in East Chicago, Ind. The study also presents data showing ... > full story -
Computer Models Show How Skyborne Seawater Particles Change Cloud Brightness, Temperature, Rain Patterns
February 19, 2010 — Ships blowing off steam are helping researchers understand how human-made particles might be useful against global warming. New results from modeling clouds like those seen in shipping lanes reveal ... > full story
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