Study of energy and health in Africa focuses spotlight on charcoal and forest management
...o transition from biomass fuels to petroleum-based fossil fuels such as kerosene and liquid propane gas, the...ergy infrastructure in Africa make petroleum-based fossil fuels an unlikely option. "If you switch everyone off the dirtiest fuels to burning clean fossil fu...Charcoal and forest management could reduce greenhouse gas levels & save lives in Africa
...o transition from biomass fuels to petroleum-based fossil fuels such as kerosene and liquid propane gas, whi...ergy infrastructure in Africa make petroleum-based fossil fuels an unlikely option. "If you switch everyone off the dirtiest fuels to burning clean fossil fue...High-intensity ultrasound creates hollow nanospheres and nanocrystals
...ulfur-containing compounds from gasoline and other fossil fuels. "Molybdenum-disulfide is a layered material, but its catalytic activity occurs at its edges," Suslick said. "By distorting and breaking up the layers, hollow nanospheres offer increased edge-surface area, as well as access to both inner and ou...Research by scientists affiliated with the Earth Institute at Columbia University
...ocarbon dating techniques that has skewed previous fossil dating hundreds to thousands of years in the past....an adjustment to the pretreatment and screening of fossil corals, an excellent archive for extending calibration beyond the tree ring records, makes dating mu...Air pollution may cause and speed up artery disease
...rs or less. They are commonly produced by burning fossil fuels such as driving cars, and smelting and processing metals. They are tiny enough to be inhaled into the smallest airways. PM2.5 levels are measured in micrograms per meter cubed (ug/m3). In this study, readings ranged from 5.2 to 26.9 ug/m3. Fo...Scripps atmospheric scientist appointed to Pontifical Academy of Sciences
...ions, to study the mixture of pollutants formed by fossil fuel combustion and rural biomass burning. Ramanathan's previous honors include the 2002 Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal from the American Meteorological Society, the Buys Ballot Medal from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, and a medal for...Global air pollution map produced by Envisat's SCIAMACHY
... the different sources of nitrogen oxides such as fossil fuel combustion, biomass burning, lightning especially as the value of the latter is still highly uncertain." About SCIAMACHY SCIAMACHY is a spectrometer that maps the air over a very wide wavelength range, which allows detection of trace gases...Myosin mutant points to human origins
...eriod of major evolutionary changes in the hominid fossil record. These include the beginning of larger brai...tachment sites. Then in looking at the modern and fossil skulls it dawned on us that we just might have to look 'outside of the box' to appreciate the real s...Malnutrition and misery will be 'unimaginable' by 2054
...er stress resources for fresh water, renewable and fossil energy, fertilizers and pesticides. For the most finite resource of all, land, each year more than 10 million hectares of cropland are degraded and lost because of soil erosion. This comes at a time when food production should be increasing dramati...UCI to lead first public health study exploring link between air pollution and heart disease
... relevant only to this area. The health impacts of fossil fuel combustion are found nearly everywhere in this country, and you'll be exposed to these pollutants one way or another. This is a national health issue." Participating in the study from UCI are cardiologists Dr. John Longhurst and Dr. Shaista ...Rice study identifies sources of Houston smog particulates
... sulfate -- a byproduct of large scale, industrial fossil fuel combustion. As the largest single component of particulate matter -- accounting for some 40 percent -- a number of previous studies have investigated the sources of ammonium sulfate. Instead, Fraser's team focused on less understood sources of f...Brookhaven spotlights: News from the March 2003 American Chemical Society Meeting
...es, which are hydrocarbons such as natural gas and fossil fuels." By using this approach, Suits and his coll...ly reactive molecules present in the combustion of fossil fuels. "Reactions between radicals are challenging to study," Fockenberg says, "because they lead to...Laser technology helps measure pollution from NYC buses
...oxides and volatile organic compounds created from fossil fuel combustion) interact with sunlight and produce a mixture of hundreds of different and hazardous chemicals known as secondary pollutants. Types of buses the researcher's tested included diesel buses with pollution controls called soot particle ox...Fossil fuels for household use are viable option for world's poor
...eley - Contrary to conventional wisdom, the use of fossil fuels for household cooking and heating may make m...cause they contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, fossil fuels have been largely dismissed as a viable alternative for the one-third of the world's populatio...New first-aid method could prevent brain damage in patients exposed to carbon monoxide
...ic in many parts of the developing world which use fossil fuels In North America, it results in as many as ...ess gas formed during incomplete combustion of the fossil fuels - gas, oil, coal and wood used in boilers, engines, gas fires, water heaters, solid fuel appli...Public strong on opinions weaker on knowledge
... to understand the link between global warming and fossil fuel emissions, they incorrectly assume that other environmental problems such as the thinning ozone layer are also primary causes of global warming. That's because these two environmental problems have often been spoken about in the same breath. S...Study confirms air pollution linked to slowed lung function growth in children
... come directly or indirectly from vehicles burning fossil fuels, emissions from industrial plants and other sources. Nitrogen dioxide, fine airborne particles known as PM2.5 and elemental carbon also were strongly associated with reduced lung function growth. Much of the elemental carbon in the Southern Ca...ACS announces awards for environmentally-conscious business innovation
...e manufacturing process uses 20 to 50 percent less fossil fuel and generates 15 to 60 percent less greenhouse gases than conventional plastics. Pfizer, Inc. (New York) improved the manufacturing process for Sertraline, the active ingredient in Zoloft, the most prescribed anti-depression medication of its...Air pollution causes healthy blood vessels to constrict
...rometers. Fine particles are emitted from burning fossil fuels, mostly from car engine exhaust, power generation and many industrial processes. Ozone and additional particulate materials are created when the sun shines on these emissions. In other research, exposure to fine particles has been implicated ...Wolfgang Glasser receives ACS award for wood chemistry, bio-based composites research
...l environmental quality, and growing dependence on fossil resources have heightened industrial interest in technologies that use biobased (renewable) resources. With the help of the CIT, Virginia Tech established a pilot facility to demonstrate the conversion of carbohydrate-rich residues from agricultura...