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July 12, 2023

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Potent Greenhouse Gas Produced by Industry Could Be Readily Abated With Existing Technologies

Researchers have found that one method of reducing greenhouse gas emissions is available, affordable, and capable of being implemented right now. Nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas and ozone-depleting substance, could be readily abated with ...

Study of Earth's Stratosphere Reduces Uncertainty in Future Climate Change

New research reduces uncertainty in future climate change linked to the stratosphere, with important implications for life on Earth. A significant source of uncertainty relates to future changes to water vapor in the stratosphere, an extremely dry region of the atmosphere 15--50 km above the ...

蒙特利尔议定书第一无冰Arcti推迟c Summer

新的研究表明,1987年全球条约,德signed to protect the ozone layer, has postponed the occurrence of the first ice-free Arctic by as much as 15 ...

Air Pollution from Oil and Gas Production Responsible for $77 Billion in Annual US Health Damages, Contributes to Thousands of Early Deaths, Childhood Asthma Cases Nationwide

A new study found that air pollution from the oil and gas sector in the United States has substantial adverse impacts on air quality, human health, and health costs. The findings show that the pollutants nitrogen oxide (NO2), fine particulate matter ...
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Ozone Hole Continues Shrinking in 2022, NASA and NOAA Scientists Say

The annual Antarctic ozone hole reached an average area of 8.9 million square miles (23.2 million square kilometers) between Sept. 7 and Oct. 13, 2022. This depleted area of the ozone layer over the ...

Ozone Pollution Threatens Plant Health and Makes It Harder for Pollinators to Find Flowers

Over the past decades, rising levels of ozone pollution have been interrupting pollination, impacting the livelihood of both plants and the animals that pollinate them. Researchers now explain how an ...

Anthropogenic Air Pollution More Significant Than Desert Dust

At the beginning of the year, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the Middle East ranks among the regions with the worst air quality. There is a common misconception that desert dust ...

Grimy Windows Could Be Harboring Toxic Pollutants

Dirty windows can harbor potentially harmful pollutants under protective films of fatty acids from cooking emissions -- and these can hang around over long periods of ...

Smoke from the Black Summer Wildfires in Australia Impacted the Climate and High Altitude Winds of the Southern Hemisphere for More Than a Year and a Half

The 2019/20 wildfires in Australia transported more smoke into the atmosphere than observed ever before anywhere in the world. In the so-called Black Summer, three times as many particles reached ...

People Generate Their Own Oxidation Field and Change the Indoor Air Chemistry Around Them

High levels of hydroxyl radicals (OH) can be generated indoors, simply due to the presence of people and ...

Scientists Develop New Method to Assess Ozone Layer Recovery

Researchers have developed a new method for assessing the impacts of ozone-destroying substances that threaten the recovery of the ozone ...

New Antarctic Study Shows Levels of 'Forever Chemicals' Reaching the Remote Continent Have Been Increasing

New evidence from Antarctica shows that toxic 'fluorinated forever chemicals' have increased markedly in the remote environment in recent decades and scientists believe CFC-replacements ...

Ozone Depletion Over North Pole Produces Weather Anomalies

Researchers have established that the destruction of ozone over the Arctic in the spring causes abnormal weather throughout the northern hemisphere, with many places being warmer and drier than ...

Research Reveals Why Tackling Particle Pollution Leads to Rise in Photochemical Smog

Researchers have discovered why reducing particle pollution is leading to a rise in photochemical smog in some emerging economies such as India, Africa and ...

Discovery Reveals Large, Year-Round Ozone Hole Over Tropics

Scientist reveal a large, all-season ozone hole in the lower stratosphere over the tropics comparable in depth to that of the well-known springtime Antarctic hole, but roughly seven times greater in ...

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Climate Damage Caused by Growing Space Tourism Needs Urgent Mitigation

A formidable space tourism industry may have a greater climate effect than the aviation industry and undo repair to the protective ozone layer if left unregulated, according to a new ...

Lesser Known Ozone Layer's Outsized Role in Planet Warming

New research has identified a lesser-known form of ozone playing a big role in heating the Southern Ocean -- one of Earth's main cooling ...

Ozone May Be Heating the Planet More Than We Realize

New research reveals ozone in the lower atmosphere in particular contributed to warming in the Southern Ocean - which absorbs much of the planet's excess heat - more than previously realized. ...

Smoke from Major Wildfires Destroys the Ozone Layer

A new study shows that smoke from wildfires destroys the ozone layer. Researchers caution that if major fires become more frequent with a changing climate, more damaging ultraviolet radiation from ...

Chemical Link Between Wildfire Smoke and Ozone Depletion

Atmospheric chemists have found that the smoke from Australia's 'Black Summer' wildfires set off chemical reactions in the stratosphere that contributed to the destruction of ozone. ...

Air Chemistry Data from South Korea Field Study Puts Models to the Test

An international effort to measure air quality in South Korea, a region with complex sources of pollution, may provide new insights into the atmospheric chemistry that produces ozone pollution, ...

What the Rise of Oxygen on Early Earth Tells Us About Life on Other Planets

When did the Earth reach oxygen levels sufficient to support animal life? Researchers have discovered that a rise in oxygen levels occurred in step with the evolution and expansion of complex, ...

Copper-Based Chemicals May Be Contributing to Ozone Depletion

作为地球臭氧层恢复从过去的排放s of now-banned CFCs and halons, other chemicals are emerging as major causes of stratospheric ozone depletion. Atmospheric scientists have been ...

Air Pollution from Wildfires, Rising Heat Affected 68% of US West in One Day

Large wildfires and severe heat events are happening more often at the same time, worsening air pollution across the western United States, a study has found. In 2020, more than 68% of the western ...

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