News tagged with airborne


Study warns of pollution from ships

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 1.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Thousands of merchant ships chug in and out of South Florida's bustling ports each year, bringing boatloads worth of economic benefit to the region.


Scientists offer new theory for largest known mass extinction

Scientists offer new theory for largest known mass extinction

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 30, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (21) | comments 5

The largest mass extinction in the history of the earth could have been triggered off by giant salt lakes, whose emissions of halogenated gases changed the atmospheric composition so dramatically that vegetation ...


Dust plays larger than expected role in determining Atlantic temperature

Dust plays larger than expected role in determining Atlantic temperature

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 26, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (17) | comments 13

(PhysOrg.com) -- The recent warming trend in the Atlantic Ocean is largely due to reductions in airborne dust and volcanic emissions during the past 30 years, according to a new study.


Lawsuit by a father in Indiana targets polluters

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- Ron Kurth, who grew up in Gary and worked in the steel mills, raised his family in the region near the outskirts of Chicago. He always wondered about the smoke and smog that overcast the Lake Michigan shoreline.


Pollution dims skies as well as befouling the air

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 1.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

A University of Maryland-led team has compiled the first decades-long database of aerosol measurements over land, making possible new research into how air pollution changes affect climate change.



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