American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- June 27/July 3, 2007
...n of a process in which canola oil is treated with ozone to make the chemical raw materials for PUR. Researchers described the process as low-cost without the need for complicated technology, and said that it produces PUR sheets with excellent mechanical properties. It is reasonable to believe that the v...Magnetic field uses sound waves to ignite sun's ring of fire
... that bathes the Earth, producing the atmosphere's ozone layer. It also has the strongest solar connection to climate variability. "The sun's interior vibrates with the peal of millions of bells, but the bells are all on the inside of the building," said Scott McIntosh of the Southwest Research Institu...Climate change signal detected in the Indian Ocean
...oduction of aerosols (tiny atmospheric particles), ozone depletion, and greenhouse gases. Strengthening westerlies are related to changes in the Southern Annular Mode an atmospheric feature similar to the El Nino Southern Oscillation and considered the dominant influence on Southern Hemisphere atmospheric...Plants that produce more vitamin C may result from UCLA-Dartmouth discovery
...w better with more vitamin C, especially with more ozone in the atmosphere due to pollution." Carole Linster, a UCLA postdoctoral fellow in chemistry and biochemistry and lead author of the study, discovered the controlling enzyme, GDP-L-galactose phosphorylase, which serves as the biosynthetic pathway b...NIST building software offers green product advice
...tat alteration, human health, ecological toxicity, ozone depletion, smog, criteria air pollutants and water intake. The new consensus weight option, developed by a panel of building product manufacturers, green building designers and environmental assessment experts, allows users to evaluate environmental ...Amphibians in losing race with environmental change
...in today's sunlight, due to erosion of the Earth's ozone layer, is causing mutations, impaired immune systems and slower growth rates. Through evolution, amphibians were able to adapt to changing UV-B levels in the past, but the current change has occurred too rapidly. In the past, water was reasonab...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, April 2007
...ier trees on horizon . . . Increased levels of ozone associated with the release of greenhouse gases ar...of East Tennessee and found that current levels of ozone amplified the effects of climate stresses on large tree growth, transfer of water from soil to the a...Envisat Symposium 2007 kicks off in Switzerland
... protocols like the Montreal Protocol, controlling ozone depleting substances, and Kyoto Protocol, observin... global scale, pollution issues from stratospheric ozone depletions, such as the ozone hole, through to air pollution and climate change gases. The import...Ethanol vehicles pose a significant risk to human health, study finds
...n estimates that 800,000 people die each year from ozone and other chemicals in smog. ''In our study, E85...fueled vehicles in 2020.'' The study showed that ozone increases in Los Angeles and the northeastern United States will be partially offset by decreases in...Scientists meet to review Envisat results after 5 years of operations
...ighlighted, such as greenhouse gas concentrations, ozone hole monitoring, sea level rise, sea surface temperature, ice sheets and sea ice variations, volcanoes and earthquakes, land cover changes, among others. About 800 presentations are planned in 54 themed sessions with participants from over 40 countri...Preventing and treating lung cancer -- ESMO explores collaboration to fight cancer on all fronts
...is reducing exposure to coal-burning indoors or to ozone outdoors." While in Geneva hosting the EIS on Chest Tumors, ESMO senior executives will meet with WHO officials to discuss ways of collaborating and strengthening clinicians involvement to improve prevention and treatment for lung cancer. "Cance...Largest physics meeting of the year, in Denver
...ment Program! me (UNEP) in 1988. An expert on the ozone hole, Solomon will discuss the upcoming report of the IPCC Working Group 1 (WG1). Doug Nychka (National Center for Atmos. Research) was a member of a recent NAS panel exploring the "hockey stick" shaped curve of temperature versus time. The NAS ...Computer-designed molecule to clean up fluorocarbons?
..., however, high-energy photons and highly reactive ozone molecules can break apart fluorocarbons, with the well-known consequence of a depleted ozone layer and increased ultraviolet radiation at ground level. A determined chemist can break down fluor...JCI table of contents -- March 1, 2007
...ice resistant to lung damage caused by the oxidant ozone expressed more of a protein known as MARCO than th...RCO showed more lung damage when exposed to either ozone or another oxidant than mice expressing normal amounts of MARCO. MARCO provided protection by enabli...Cells in the lung clear the air to prevent lung damage
...ice resistant to lung damage caused by the oxidant ozone expressed more of a protein known as MARCO than th...RCO showed more lung damage when exposed to either ozone or another oxidant than mice expressing normal amounts of MARCO. MARCO provided protection by enabli...UI researcher cites need for a 'small view' of the environment
...ble society. As one example, she cited Antarctic ozone thinning -- the "ozone hole" -- as an environmenta...he stratosphere by catalyzing reactions leading to ozone destruction," Grassian said. "This understanding has led to a ban on CFCs and a predicted stabilizat...Free public events at the 2007 AAAS Annual Meeting
...ntifying the mechanism that produces the Antarctic ozone hole and for her many contributions toward the science of global environmental problems. Within the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), she is co-chair of Working Group I, which assesses the scientific basis of the climate system and cl...Grape expectations for healthier wine
A new technique that uses ozone to preserve grapes could help prevent allergies an... micro liters per liter of ozone. They found that ozone treatment was 90% as effective as SO2 at preventing decay. In addition, ozone-treated grapes had up......d it contributes to depletion of the stratospheric ozone layer, making humans more vulnerable to UV radiation. Slowing nitrification to a rate compatible with good crop growth would reduce fertilizer needs and lessen agriculture's impact on the environment. Contact: Ivn Ortiz-Monasterio, International Ma......research indicates a faster pace for stratospheric ozone destruction Toward reducing the toxic side effect...research indicates a faster pace for stratospheric ozone destruction Journal of Physical Chemistry A The greenhouse effect may be happening much faster t...