FRESNO, Calif. (AP) -- Environmentalists say a new plan to clean up the soot-laden air in California's farm belt would fail to adequately regulate agricultural sources of pollution....
... reductions are needed along with improved stream restoration techniques that treat water flowing from polluted streams to coastal waters. The trick will be for scientists to figure out what works and ...
Free radical pollution in the air could be a cause of asthma. Chemists have discovered that the atmospheric nitrate radical irreversibly damages amino acids, which are the building blocks for proteins ...
... stream during environmental restoration projects. This breakthrough allows environmental managers to assess the pollution-reducing benefits of storm water management and urban stream restoration, and ...
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Individuals with deep vein thrombosis tended to have a higher exposure to particulate air pollution than controls. After adjusting for other environmental and health factors, for every increase in ...
... pathogenesis, and may explain why smoking and air pollution contributes to TB,” said Adrie Steyn, Ph.D., ... to high levels of CO through air pollution and cigarette smoke plays a role in tuberculosis ...
Exposure to coarse particulate matter air pollution such as from agricultural activities, windblown dust and mechanical grinding is not statistically significantly associated with emergency hospital ...
... nature’s ability to decompose these problematic compounds.”
While combining bioenergy production and pollutant destruction has its own appeal, Halden sees a simpler solution to combating the ...
Airborne, space-based sensors will show pollutants' impact on the Arctic.
CHICAGO, May 25 (UPI) -- Experts say they suspect industrial pollutants are one possible cause of a statistical downturn in the number of boys being born in the United States.
When air-quality monitors and environmental regulators inspect the pollution levels of certain cities, the difference of one or two parts per million in the concentration of pollutants like ozone and ...
... as rain.
This trend turned up seasonal and regional differences, however, and aerosol pollution was found, on average, to be less of a factor during the wet monsoon seasons in South America and in ...
... of ischemic cerebrovascular events specifically. Some research has shown that particulate air pollution is associated with acute artery vasoconstriction and with increased thickening of the blood, ...
... effect by interfering with the energy metabolism of the exposed invertebrates and that different pollutants have unique molecular effects, with implications for both monitoring and remediation of ...
... Haliphron atlanticus.
Twenty-two specimens were analyzed for a variety of contaminants. One of the chemical pollutants, TBT, is an additive used to control growth of organisms and is found in ...
