Air Pollution News

Posted December 20, 1999:

• New Satellite-Borne Instrument to Measure Carbon Monoxide Pollution in the Lower Atmosphere

Posted December 17, 1999:

• Wildfire Chemistry Model Assesses Long Range Fire Effects

Posted December 8, 1999:

• Air Pollution From Asia Could Violate New Federal Ozone Standard

Posted December 7, 1999:

• Explaining How Ozone "Chokes Up" Plants

Posted November 30, 1999:

• Road Dust Something To Sneeze About

Posted November 25, 1999:

• China Now Leads World In Sulfur Emissions, Study Shows

Posted November 17, 1999:

• MIT's Plasmatron For Cutting Car Pollutants Is Significant Step Closer To Road Tests

Posted November 16, 1999:

• Emissions Of Nitrogen Oxides From Oceangoing Ships Perturb Atmospheric Chemistry And Climate

Posted November 15, 1999:

• Rain Showers May Be Caused By Vortices In The Air

Posted October 5, 1999:

• Spacecraft Provides First Direct Evidence: Smoke In The Atmosphere Inhibits Rainfall

Posted September 20, 1999:

• "Soapy" Droplets Make Brighter Clouds

Posted September 14, 1999:

• Atmospheric Carbon Monoxide Levels Decline U.S. Mid-Atlantic Region

Posted August 20, 1999:

• Ship Sulfur Emissions Found To Strongly Impact Worldwide Ocean And Coastal Pollution

Posted August 19, 1999:

• Measuring The Smallest Air Pollutants: Scientists Gather In Atlanta For Month-Long Study Of Fine Particulate Matter

Posted August 17, 1999:

• Smog Impacts: Hurtling Through Airways, Tiny Particles May Do More Damage Than Previously Assumed

Posted August 13, 1999:

• Microbes Work Magic On Hazardous Air Pollutants

Posted July 23, 1999:

• MTU Researchers Develop New Software To Help Clean Up Contamination Sites

Posted July 19, 1999:

• Oxygen Measurements Yield Greenhouse Clues

Posted July 14, 1999:

• African Dust Called A Major Factor Affecting Southeast U.S. Air Quality

Posted July 13, 1999:

• Showers And Dishwashers Contribute To Indoor Air Pollution

Posted June 24, 1999:

• Jet Contrails To Be Significant Climate Factor By 2050

Posted June 16, 1999:

• Ground-Level Ozone Pollution May Rise To Unsafe Levels This Summer; People With Respiratory Diseases Should Use Caution

Posted June 10, 1999:

• Massive Pollution Documented Over Indian Ocean

Posted May 31, 1999:

• USGS Study Confirms An Urban Air-Pollution Problem At Mount Rainier National Park
• Researchers Develop New Environmental Air Monitoring Device

Posted May 27, 1999:

• Ozone Linked To Warmer Weekend Temperatures In Toronto

Posted May 20, 1999:

• Growing Old And Polluting The Air: Air Quality Laboratory Monitors Emissions Of An Aging Vehicle Fleet

Posted May 12, 1999:

• Virginia Is Losing Its Native Trout Streams To Acid Rain

Posted April 30, 1999:

• Study Bolsters Theory Of Plant Nutrients Trapped In Soil

Posted March 25, 1999:

• Innovative Process To Benefit Ground Water Clean-Up
• NASA Team Finds Atlanta Influences Its Own Weather
• Atlanta An "Urban Heat Island," With Higher Temperatures Than Surrounding Area, New NASA Study Shows

Posted March 24, 1999:

• Chemists Discover That Aerosol Clusters Play Larger Role In Generation Of Air Pollution

Posted March 19, 1999:

• Study Rethinks Atmospheric Chemistry From Ground Up

Posted March 15, 1999:

• Acid Rain Threatens Future Productivity Of Forests, Research Shows

Posted March 10, 1999:

• Atmospheric Scientists Fly Over South Pacific To Sample "World's Cleanest Air"

Posted March 4, 1999:

• NCAR Scientists, Aircraft, Instruments Head To Indian Ocean For Climate Change Experiment

Posted March 3, 1999:

• Major Set-Back To Ozone-Layer Recovery

Posted March 2, 1999:

• UF Researchers Show Common Compound Can Reduce Air Pollution

Posted February 11, 1999:

• Educators Launch Internet Based Workshop On Pollution Prevention

Posted February 3, 1999:

• Where Does All The Air Pollution Go?

Posted February 2, 1999:

• Carbon Dioxide Findings Raise Biodiversity Concern

Posted February 1, 1999:

• Scientists To Kick Off Major Field Experiment On Role Of Aerosols In Climate Change

Posted October 1, 1998:

• Environmental Pollution And Degradation Causes 40 Percent Of Deaths Worldwide, Cornell Study Finds

Posted September 28, 1998:

• Clean Air Act Reduces Acid Rain In Eastern United States

Posted September 12, 1998:

• 14,000 Years Of Atmospheric Lead Emissions Recorded In Swiss Peat Bog

Posted September 2, 1998:

• Discovery Of New Ozone-Destroying Chemical

Posted August 26, 1998:

• Children Inhale Higher Percentage Of Pollution, New Research Shows

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