Archive for June, 2011
Aircraft influence the local weather, new study shows; Inadvertent cloud seeding can increase precipitation around major airports
Posted on June 30, 2011 - Filed Under Air Pollution, Curbing Pollution, Environmental Pollution, General, Global Warming, Land Pollution, Ocean Pollution, Pollution News, Water Pollution
As airplanes fly through the clouds, they often punch holes through the ones that contain supercooled water, or water that has remained in liquid form below its freezing point. Now, researchers say that this phenomenon can lead to increased snowfall around the world’s major airports.
Read More..>>Climate change increases the risk of ozone damage to plants, Swedish research finds
Posted on June 30, 2011 - Filed Under Air Pollution, Curbing Pollution, Environmental Pollution, General, Global Warming, Land Pollution, Ocean Pollution, Pollution News, Water Pollution
Ground-level ozone is an air pollutant that harms humans and plants. Both climate and weather play a major role in ozone damage to plants. Researchers in Sweden have now shown that climate change has the potential to significantly increase the risk of ozone damage to plants in northern and central Europe by the end of this century.
Read More..>>Green facades are the future
Posted on June 29, 2011 - Filed Under Air Pollution, Curbing Pollution, Environmental Pollution, General, Global Warming, Land Pollution, Ocean Pollution, Pollution News, Water Pollution
Green facades and roofs are a current trend in building. Recent research in the Netherlands focused specifically on facades and sees considerable benefits in creating vertical vegetation. Among other things, the plants help to absorb hazardous fine dust particles from the air.
Read More..>>Growing plants on oil contaminated land
Posted on June 29, 2011 - Filed Under Air Pollution, Curbing Pollution, Environmental Pollution, General, Global Warming, Land Pollution, Ocean Pollution, Pollution News, Water Pollution
What happens when there is an oil spill on land? Who cleans it up and how do they do it? By optimizing the use of naturally occurring bacteria, a group of scientists was able to clean contaminated soil without using either chemicals or GMOs.
Read More..>>Understanding impacts of aerosols and trace gases on climate and air quality
Posted on June 29, 2011 - Filed Under Air Pollution, Curbing Pollution, Environmental Pollution, General, Global Warming, Land Pollution, Ocean Pollution, Pollution News, Water Pollution
Atmospheric aerosol particles (otherwise known as particulate matter) have been masking the true rate of greenhouse gas induced global warming during the industrial period. New investigations show that the aerosol cooling effect will be strongly reduced by 2030, as air pollution abatements are implemented worldwide and the presently available advanced control technologies are utilized. These actions would increase the global mean temperature by roughly 1 degree Celsius.
Read More..>>Exposure to parental stress increases pollution-related lung damage in children
Posted on June 24, 2011 - Filed Under Air Pollution, Curbing Pollution, Environmental Pollution, General, Global Warming, Land Pollution, Ocean Pollution, Pollution News, Water Pollution
Psychosocial stress appears to enhance the lung-damaging effects of traffic-related pollution in children, according to new research.
Read More..>>Study of phytoremediation benefits of 86 indoor plants published; Japanese royal fern tops list for formaldehyde removal effectiveness
Posted on June 23, 2011 - Filed Under Air Pollution, Curbing Pollution, Environmental Pollution, General, Global Warming, Land Pollution, Ocean Pollution, Pollution News, Water Pollution
Scientists determined the formaldehyde removal efficiency of a diverse cross-section of 86 indoor plant species. Ferns had the highest formaldehyde removal efficiency of the five classes of plants used in the experiments. Osmunda japonica (Japanese royal fern) was the most effective at removing formaldehyde of the species tested, proving 50 times more effective than the least-efficient species. All plants in the study were classified as excellent, intermediate, and poor based on formaldehyde removal efficiency.
Read More..>>Tracking groundwater pollution to its source using computer algorithms
Posted on June 22, 2011 - Filed Under Air Pollution, Curbing Pollution, Environmental Pollution, General, Global Warming, Land Pollution, Ocean Pollution, Pollution News, Water Pollution
Computer algorithms might be useful in identifying sources of groundwater pollution, according to researchers in Australia and India. In a new article, they explain how notoriously difficult it is to trace such pollution.
Read More..>>European Union’s ‘DemoCLOCK’ project to cut cost of capturing CO2
Posted on June 10, 2011 - Filed Under Air Pollution, Curbing Pollution, Environmental Pollution, General, Global Warming, Land Pollution, Ocean Pollution, Pollution News, Water Pollution
A project funded by the European Union and led by SINTEF in Norway with ten other European partners aims to demonstrate a cost-effective carbon dioxide capture technology that could herald a new generation of power-generation plants with integrated CO2 capture.
Read More..>>Fighting oil-spills with air-bubbles
Posted on June 10, 2011 - Filed Under Air Pollution, Curbing Pollution, Environmental Pollution, General, Global Warming, Land Pollution, Ocean Pollution, Pollution News, Water Pollution
Curtains of air-bubbles are turning out to be a new method of fighting oil-spills. The bubbles gather up the oil efficiently, even in winds and strong currents, and keep it together in a “pool”.
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