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Facemasks help prevent adverse cardiovascular effects caused by pollution

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Diesel exhaust causes arteries to lose their flexibility. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Particle and Fibre Toxicology found that exposure to engine pollution resulted in arterial stiffness in a g ...


EPA's new green parking lot allows scientists to study permeable surfaces that may help the environment

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Paved parking lots and driveways make our lives easier, but they often create an easy pathway for pollutants to reach underground water sources and alter the natural flow of water back into the ground. The U.S. Environmental ...


Research breakthrough will lead to more accurate weather forecasts

Research breakthrough will lead to more accurate weather forecasts

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 07, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 3

More accurate global weather forecasts and a better understanding of climate change are in prospect thanks to a breakthrough by engineers at Queen's University Belfast's Institute of Electronics, Communications ...


Houseplants cut indoor ozone

Houseplants cut indoor ozone

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Ozone, the main component of air pollution, or smog, is a highly reactive, colorless gas formed when oxygen reacts with other chemicals. Although ozone pollution is most often associated with outdoor air, ...


Inhaling a heart attack: How air pollution can cause heart disease

Inhaling a heart attack: How air pollution can cause heart disease

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

We are used to thinking of heart disease as a product of genetic factors or lifestyle choices, such as what we eat and how much we exercise. There is another road to heart disease: breathing.


Hong Kong air pollution has equalled a record high registered in 2000

Hong Kong air pollution equals record high

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Hong Kong air pollution has equalled a record high registered in 2000, triggering a warning for people with heart or respiratory illnesses, according to the Environmental Protection Department.


Improving China's acid rain control strategy

Improving China's acid rain control strategy

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists are reporting the first evidence that China's sharp focus on reducing widespread damage to soil by acid rain by restricting sulfur dioxide air pollution may have an unexpected consequence: Gains ...


Tracking Nitrogen's Flow

From the backyard to the ocean: New study shows streams act as key nitrogen filters

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 12, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 0

As spring arrives across the country, tourists returning to beaches will face the reality of "red tide" -- harmful blooms of algae that make water unfit for swimming and pose risks to humans and sea life.


Heavy metal slips down UK air quality charts

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 14, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Air quality in the UK has improved significantly over the last 25 years according to a report published by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL). Monitoring at 17 testing sites around the UK shows a fall in the presence ...


Air contaminants databases ease healthy homes planning

Technology / Other

created Feb 16, 2007 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Air pollution sources are everywhere in the home, from the bacon and eggs frying in the kitchen, to the woodburning stove in the family room, the newly painted hallway, and even the carpet in the living room. To help estimate ...



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