Emissions of banned ozone-depleting substance back on decline
International team to tackle atmospheric pollutionCredit: AGAGE/NASA Earth Observatory http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov Two international studies of a consortium including more than a ...
Tag: Pollution/Remediation
Black carbon aerosols in Beijing become “slim”
Credit: Yunfei Wu Black carbon (BC) is the product of incomplete combustion of fossil fuels, biofuel, and biomass. By strongly ...
Sustainable and safe batteries: Lifecycle research
KIT bundles interdisciplinary expertise in two new battery competence clustersCredit: (Photo: Laila Tkotz, KIT) Recycling and optimized resource cycles, second ...
The pandemic lockdown leads to cleaner city air across Canada, Concordia paper reveals
A study led by master's student Xuelin Tian examining emission levels shows a sharp drop in vehicle pollutants as of ...
Environmentally friendly behavior is easy — tourists just need a ‘nudge’
Simple cues reduce cognitive strain and provide a nudge -- helping tourists to demonstrate environmentally conscious behavior, such as refusing ...
Cleaning Up the Mississippi River
Louisiana State University Boyd Professor tracks 100-year historyCredit: LSU Louisiana State University College of the Coast & Environment Boyd Professor ...
Fast-growing parts of africa see a surprise: less air pollution from seasonal fires
But growing urban emissions mean reprieve may be only temporaryCredit: Kyu Lee/Earth Institute, Columbia University Often, when populations and economies ...
Tourism mainly responsible for marine litter on Mediterranean beaches
The global COVID19 pandemic may be an opportunity to rethink the model of sustainable tourisCredit: ICTA-UAB Researchers from the Institute ...
Mixed and matched: Integrating metal-organic frameworks into polymers for CO2 separation
New strategy boosts the performance of membranes for filtering CO2 from industrial emissionsCredit: Chris LeBoutillier on Pexels One of humanity's ...
New research reveals drivers of regionally different ozone responses to the COVID-19
Credit: TANG Rong The outbreak of COVID-19 raised a question about the relationship between anthropogenic emissions and air pollution, which ...
Arctic stew: Understanding how high-latitude lakes respond to and affect climate change
Credit: Paul Sibley To arrive at Nunavut, turn left at the Dakotas and head north. You can't miss it--the vast ...
MARLIT, artificial intelligence against marine litter
Litter that floats and pollutes the oceanCredit: Àlex Aguilar (UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA - IRBio) Floating sea macro-litter is a threat ...
Songbirds exposed to lead-contaminated water show telltale signs about human impacts
Credit: Photo courtesy of Adobe Stock / Xavier MARCHANT Humans, wildlife, and the environment are all interconnected and play a ...
New research to enhance air filtering in ambulances
Credit: Cranfield University Cranfield University is working with Q-Flo, Cambridge University and NHS England to record experimental airflow data from ...
A team of climatologists is studying how to minimize errors in observed climate trend
Experts in climatology from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, the State Meteorology Agency and the University of Bonn (Germany) make ...
Extreme UV laser shows generation of atmospheric pollutant
Credit: Taro Sekikawa Hokkaido University scientists show that under laboratory conditions, ultraviolet light reacts with nitrophenol to produce smog-generating nitrous ...
Dynamics of radiocesium in forests after the Fukushima disaster: Concerns and some hope
Scientists compile available data and analyses on the flow of radionuclides to gain a more holistic understandingCredit: Forestry and Forest ...
Study indicates US cities underestimate their GHG emissions by nearly 20%
Some cities' self-reported emissions are as much as 145% below standardized estimates, distorting data on which climate change policy actions ...
Novel photocatalyst effectively turns carbon dioxide into methane fuel with light
Credit: City University of Hong Kong Carbon dioxide (CO2) is one of the major greenhouse gases causing global warming. If ...
National company acquires exclusive rights to Purdue rare-earth element innovations
American Resources Corp. acquires environmentally safer method developed at Purdue to advance clean energy technologies that require rare-earth elements, a ...