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Vegetation Feedbacks During Drought Worsen Ozone Pollution Episodes

When high in the atmosphere, ozone protects Earth from harmful solar radiation -- but ozone at ground level is a significant pollutant.

21 Apr 2020

New Photodegradable Polymer Could Promise Cleaner Seas

To address plastic pollution plaguing the world's seas and waterways, Cornell University chemists have developed a new polymer that can degrade by ultraviolet radiation, according to research published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

21 Apr 2020

Standardized Procedure to Analyze Fine Particles in Experimental Chambers

What impact does the development of fine particles and the global warming exert on each other? The complete atmosphere cannot be heated for experimental purposes, so a portion of it is placed in a chamber and examined there.

20 Apr 2020

Rising CO2 Levels Will Cause Severe Ecosystem Effects

Rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the consequent changes created through ocean acidification will cause severe ecosystem effects, impacting reef-forming habitats and the associated fish, according to new research.

20 Apr 2020

Comprehensive Gulf-Wide Survey Of Oil Pollution in Response to Deepwater Horizon Spill

Since the 2010 BP oil spill, marine scientists at the University of South Florida (USF) have sampled more than 2,500 individual fish representing 91 species from 359 locations across the Gulf of Mexico and found evidence of oil exposure in all of them, including some of the most popular types of seafood.

17 Apr 2020

Study Shows How Stream Pollutants from Mountaintop Mining Get Out of Water

Since the 1980s, a sprawling mountaintop removal mining complex in southern West Virginia has been leaching pollutants -- such as selenium -- into nearby streams at levels deemed unsafe for aquatic life.

7 Apr 2020

England's Protected Coasts Exposed to Litter in the Same Way as Unprotected Areas

Beaches in or near England's Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) have the same levels of litter as those in unprotected areas, new research shows.

7 Apr 2020

Study Shows How Coastal Pollution Impact Genetic Diversity of Corals

A new study by researchers at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) found that human-induced environmental stressors have a large effect on the genetic composition of coral reef populations in Hawai'i.

6 Apr 2020

Low-Carbon Technologies Allow Faster Transition to Net-Zero Emissions

A new study performed by an international group of researchers shows that smaller scale low-carbon technologies that are more cost-effective and can be mass deployed could allow a quicker transition to net-zero emissions.

3 Apr 2020

Fluctuating Rising Trend of Open Agricultural Straw Burning in Northeast China

Open biomass burning (OBB) has a significant impact on regional air quality, especially on the heavy haze pollution in Northeast China (NEC) in recent years. Recent research published in Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters provides scholars and decision-makers with a more comprehensive and long-term analysis of the spatiotemporal patterns of OBB in NEC.

3 Apr 2020