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JPL radar treks to great white north to study snow

(PhysOrg.com) -- Beginning Jan. 17, NASA will fly an airborne science laboratory, including a unique airborne radar built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., above Canadian snowstorms to ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hong Kong clean air targets fail to impress

Environmentalists on Wednesday expressed disappointment at new clean-air targets for Hong Kong, as research showed pollution-related illnesses killed more than 3,000 residents a year.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Indian experts probing 'untreatable' TB cases

The Indian government on Tuesday dispatched a team of medical experts to the financial capital, Mumbai, to assess reports of a handful of cases of apparently untreatable tuberculosis.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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India reports new TB strain resistant to all drugs

Indian doctors have reported the country's first cases of "totally drug-resistant tuberculosis," a long-feared and virtually untreatable form of the killer lung disease.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

NASA cold weather airborne campaign to measure falling snow

Beginning Jan. 17, NASA will fly an airborne science laboratory above Canadian snowstorms to tackle a difficult challenge facing the upcoming Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) satellite mission -- measuring ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

China orders nationwide emission cuts by 2015

China on Tuesday ordered local governments to reduce emissions of "major pollutants" by as much as 10 percent by 2015, amid growing public anxiety over the country's bad air.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 25

Beijing hits 'blue sky' target despite bad air

Beijing authorities said they had met their target of "blue sky" days for 2011, amid growing public criticism that officials are underplaying the pollution problem in the Chinese capital.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 18, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 5

Delhi's air as dirty as ever despite some reforms

(AP) -- A decade ago, plans for a metro and clean-fuel buses were hailed as New Delhi's answer to pollution. But air in the Indian capital is as dirty as ever - partly because breakneck development has brought ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 6

Elusive ultrafine indoor air contaminants yield to NIST analysis

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) spent 75 days on the job carrying out some very important homework—measurements in a "typical dwelling" of the release, distribution and fate of ...

Chemistry / Other

created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA's airborne observatory views star forming region W40

A new image from NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, provides the highest resolution mid-infrared image taken to date of the massive star formation region in our galaxy known ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

New study reveals bacteria from dog feces in outdoor air of urbanized air

Bacteria from fecal material -- in particular, dog fecal material -- may constitute the dominant source of airborne bacteria in Cleveland's and Detroit's wintertime air, says a new University of Colorado Boulder study.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Chemical imaging of individual salt particles advances aerosol research

Scientists recently combined experimental approaches and molecular dynamics modeling to gain new insights into the internal structure of sea salt particles and relate it to their fundamental chemical reactivity in the atmosphere. ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Aug 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Space image: Through the looking glass

The NASA logo on Bldg. 703 at the Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, Calif., is reflected in the 2.5-meter primary mirror of the SOFIA observatory's telescope.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 15, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Cloud composition cliffhanger at point reyes national seashore

Turns out, polluted air from San Francisco is not the culprit. It's a thermal trough pushing north from Arizona. In a surprise result, scientists found that this weather pattern significantly affects the chemistry ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The role of bacteria in weather events

Researchers have discovered a high concentration of bacteria in the center of hailstones, suggesting that airborne microorganisms may be responsible for that and other weather events. They report their findings today at ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1