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Commercial ships spew half as much particulate pollution as world's cars

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 26, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Globally, commercial ships emit almost half as much particulate pollution into the air as the total amount released by cars, according to a new study. Ship pollutants affect both the Earth's climate and the health of people ...





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ESA map reveals European shipping routes like never before

ESA map reveals European shipping routes like never before

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 22, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (9) | comments 1

A synoptic view of European shipping routes can be seen for the first time thanks to a new map created using seven years of radar data from ESA's Envisat satellite.


Area-wide traffic calming improves safety -- but will it work in low- and middle-income countries?

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Area-wide traffic calming schemes that discourage through-traffic from using residential roads are effective at reducing traffic-related injuries in high-income countries and may even reduce deaths. However, more research ...


Murders, Traffic Deaths Connected

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

If you want to know how many people are killed in car accidents in a particular U.S. state, look to its prisons. Regions with higher murder rates also tend to have a greater number of traffic fatalities, according to a new ...


Study links gridlock to slow job growth

Study links gridlock to slow job growth

Other Sciences / Other

created Jan 26, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Commuters well versed in the physical and psychological tolls of traffic congestion can now add an economic effect to the list. A new UC Irvine study found that places with sluggish commutes ...


A woman watches the trailer for the upcoming movie about Michael Jackson on a computer

Video spurs explosion of Internet traffic

Technology / Internet

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Internet traffic will have increased six fold by 2012 in a five-year period as more users view and post videos online, delegates at an Internet forum heard on Wednesday.


Exposure to both traffic, indoor pollutants puts some kids at higher risk for asthma later

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New research presents strong evidence that the "synergistic" effect of early-life exposure to both outdoor traffic-related pollution and indoor endotoxin causes more harm to developing lungs than one or the other exposure ...


Intelligent Traffic System Predicts Future Traffic Flow on Multiple Roads

Intelligent Traffic System Predicts Future Traffic Flow on Multiple Roads

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (68) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- In urban areas, there’s almost always more than one way to get somewhere, but often it’s difficult to predict which road will be fastest. In an attempt to improve traffic flow and decrease ...


Retailers look to stretch out Cyber Monday push

Technology / Business

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Retailers are thinking beyond Cyber Monday - a holiday marketing promotion many push for the Monday after Thanksgiving - and trying to spin their discounts into into Cyber Weekends or even Cyber Weeks.


Seaway's 50th anniversary soiled by invasive species

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Fifty years ago Friday, President Dwight Eisenhower and Britain's Queen Elizabeth II walked down a red carpet, climbed aboard a "floating palace" of a yacht named Britannia and ceremoniously sailed through the St. Lambert ...


Carbon emissions from aviation growing rapidly

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 27, 2006 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Aviation will account for 5% of the world’s carbon emissions by 2050, according to the latest climate change study by UK scientists.



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