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Ozone Levels Have Sizeable Impact on Worker Productivity
December 18, 2012 — Researchers assessed the impact of pollution on agricultural worker productivity using daily variations in ozone levels. Their results show that ozone, even at levels below current air-quality ... > full story -
Unexpected Microbes Fighting Harmful Greenhouse Gas
November 21, 2012 — The environment has a more formidable opponent than carbon dioxide. Another greenhouse gas, nitrous oxide, is 300 times more potent and also destroys the ozone layer each time it is released into the ... > full story -
Ozone's Impact on Soybean Yield: Reducing Future Losses
October 30, 2012 — Ozone is a pollutant that damages crops, particularly soybean. Researchers have investigated the responses of seven different soybean genotypes to eight ozone concentrations. The plants were exposed ... > full story -
2012 Antarctic Ozone Hole Second Smallest in 20 Years
October 24, 2012 — The average area covered by the Antarctic ozone hole this year was the second smallest in the last 20 years. Scientists attribute the change to warmer temperatures in the Antarctic lower ... > full story -
Ozone Affects Forest Watersheds
October 18, 2012 — Scientists have found that rising levels of ozone, a greenhouse gas, may amplify the impacts of higher temperatures and reduce streamflow from forests to rivers, streams, and other water bodies. Such ... > full story -
New Screening Method Identifies 1,200 Candidate Refrigerants to Combat Global Warming
September 19, 2012 — Researchers have developed a new computational method for identifying candidate refrigerant fluids with low "global warming potential" as well as other desirable performance and safety ... > full story -
Extreme Weather Linked to Global Warming, Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist Says
August 20, 2012 — New scientific analysis strengthens the view that record-breaking summer heat, crop-withering drought and other extreme weather events in recent years do, indeed, result from human activity and ... > full story -
50-Year Decline Found in Some Los Angeles Vehicle-Related Pollutants
August 10, 2012 — In California's Los Angeles Basin, levels of some vehicle-related air pollutants have decreased by about 98 percent since the 1960s, even as area residents now burn three times as much gasoline and ... > full story -
Cloud Seeds and Ozone Holes
July 30, 2012 — New findings on the growth of ice clusters in polar stratospheric clouds could help clarify the process of ozone depletion in the ... > full story -
Climate Change Linked to Ozone Loss: May Result in More Skin Cancer
July 26, 2012 — Scientists are warning that a newly-discovered connection between climate change and depletion of the ozone layer over the US could allow more damaging ultraviolet (UV) radiation to reach Earth's ... > full story
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