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Smithsonian February 2007 Virginia Morell |
Ahead in the Clouds The no-nonsense atmospheric chemist Susan Solomon helped patch the ozone hole. Now, as a leader of a major United Nations report -- out this month -- she's going after global warming.  |
Chemistry World August 27, 2009 Tom Bond |
Nitrous oxide key ozone destroyer Nitrous oxide is the single most important manmade substance reducing ozone in the atmosphere, according to US researchers.  |
Chemistry World September 16, 2014 James Urquhart |
Ozone layer no longer thinning Scientists say that they are cautiously optimistic about the recovery of the ozone layer.  |
Chemistry World September 22, 2010 Andy Extance |
Warming worry shades ozone success International measures fighting ozone depletion are working, according to the latest scientific assessment, but could elevate the climate change threat without continued effort.  |
Chemistry World September 3, 2014 Andy Extance |
Environmental priorities stymie hunt for stubborn ozone depleter The Earth's gradually healing ozone layer -- an iconic success in humanity's attempts to fix the environmental damage it causes -- is being set back by unanticipated lingering pollutants.  |
Chemistry World July 19, 2007 Simon Hadlington |
Antarctic Atmosphere Could Give Gaia Hypothesis a Boost The surprising discovery of significant quantities of iodine oxide in the lower atmosphere above Antarctica will have a potentially significant impact on current models of global atmospheric chemistry.  |
Chemistry World December 2, 2013 Ian Randall |
Mass extinction the result of acid rain and ozone loss Widespread rain as acidic as lemon juice and the destruction of as much as 65% of the ozone layer may have played a major role in the largest mass extinction in the fossil record.  |
IEEE Spectrum May 2007 William B. Gail |
Climate Control We will be able to engineer the Earth to our liking -- but we'd better start now. Before we picked a climate, we would need to evolve the political, commercial, and academic institutions to get us there.  |
Science News February 17, 2007 |
Science Safari: Ozone Depletion and Recovery Answers to questions about ozone depletion and the recovery of the ozone hole are now easy to find by researchers, as well as the general public, through a new online index developed by NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory.  |
Geotimes April 2004 Naomi Lubick |
EPA announces ozone hotspots The Environmental Protection Agency released a list yesterday of U.S. counties that need to come into compliance for amounts of ozone in the atmosphere at ground levels.  |
Geotimes October 2005 Naomi Lubick |
Ozone Link to Permian Extinction New research on how ozone affects plants and their reproduction may be the key to figuring out what happened to trigger Earth's largest extinction event, which occurred around 250 million years ago.  |
Geotimes May 2006 Carolyn Gramling |
Natural Bumps in the Atmosphere Temperatures at Earth's surface have been rising for decades, but in the upper atmosphere, the temperature is slowly dropping. In explaining this change, scientists have focused on human-related causes -- but a new study shows that nature should not be ignored.  |
Chemistry World November 2010 Bibiana Campos Seijo |
Editorial: Nobels and Ozone Four of this year's Nobel prize winners are working at UK institutions... The health of the ozone layer is still in intensive care but the long-term prognosis is good...  |
Chemistry World July 27, 2012 Phillip Broadwith |
Storm on the horizon for ozone levels Summer storms can inject water vapor high into the atmosphere and trigger processes that degrade the ozone layer, say US chemists.  |
Geotimes January 2004 Naomi Lubick |
Longer polar ice record Geoscientists have beefed up a dataset documenting ice cover at Earth's poles, revealing a longer and slightly different picture than painted in the past by satellite observations.  |
Geotimes August 2004 Naomi Lubick |
Doubling the Ice Record A team of European researchers released their first round of results from the longest ice core ever to be recovered from a polar glacier. Measurements show some interesting temperature shifts that may cause climatologists to reevaluate their models.  |
Chemistry World October 19, 2015 Rebecca Trager |
The chemistry of diplomacy Vaughan Turekian will draw upon an atmospheric chemistry background and vast policy experience in his new job to promote science, technology, and engineering as integral components of US diplomacy.  |
Geotimes March 2006 Powell et al. |
Drilling Back to the Future Antarctica plays a fundamental role in sea-level change and ocean chemistry, and has the potential for important societal impacts over human timescales.  |
Salon.com November 3, 2000 Dawn MacKeen |
Life under the hole in the sky For the people of southern Chile, ozone depletion isn't a political issue -- it's a nightmarish reality. A report from the globe's ecological future...  |
Chemistry World May 11, 2015 Rebecca Trager |
Greenhouse gas milestone exceeded Global atmospheric carbon dioxide levels surpassed 400ppm in March for the first time on record, according to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.  |
Chemistry World October 2010 Bibiana Campos Seijo |
Editorial: Healing the world Although the role of science has not been strongly emphasised in discourse surrounding the Millennium Development Goals, the work of scientists contributes towards making the world a better place.  |
Geotimes October 2004 Naomi Lubick |
Extinction Realities Baffling Flash-Frozen Science A highly exaggerated storm surge floods New York City in "The Day After Tomorrow," a movie that while entertaining, bends several laws of physics in its dramatization of sudden climate change.  |
Chemistry World November 27, 2015 Andrea Sella |
Lovelock's detector James Lovelock (1919 -- ) invented the electron capture detector, explored the effect of pollutants on Earth's atmosphere and proposed the Gaia hypothesis  |
Chemistry World September 27, 2007 Simon Hadlington |
Scientists Uncover How Last Ice Age Ended Scientists have shown that the end of the last age 19,000 years ago began in the higher latitudes of the southern hemisphere before sweeping into the tropics.  |
Reason November 2008 |
Letters Letters to the Editor: Carbon: tax, trade, or deregulate?...  |
Scientific American June 2008 Philip Yam |
Updates: Whatever Happened to Protecting Cells from Radiation? Ozone Warming... Anti-radiation... Quantum Novelty... Babbage Computer...  |
Geotimes April 2007 Sally Adee |
Rainfall Affected by Climate Change Global climate change will likely cause significant changes in the world's rainfall patterns, according to researchers working on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report summary.  |
Chemistry World August 2008 |
Cold chemistry Intrepid researchers will brave the harshest conditions in the name of science. Ned Stafford talks to some of Antarctica's chemists  |
Chemistry World July 25, 2007 Peter Mitchell |
Newly Identified Side to Global Warming An atmospheric mechanism has emerged that could lift global temperatures by even higher than the 2-5 C rise predicted by the end of the century as a result of greenhouse gas emissions.  |
Geotimes July 2003 Tim Palucka |
Lightning implicated in ozone over Africa About five years ago, atmospheric scientists studying ozone concentrations over equatorial Africa and the southern hemisphere of the tropical Atlantic came across a puzzling situation. Unexpectedly high levels of ozone in southern Africa were finally explained by an overlooked phenomenon: lightning.  |
Chemistry World March 2006 Katie Gibb |
Extreme Analysis High pressures, cold temperatures and inaccessible samples all make analytical work challenging for chemists. Science still has a lot to gain from studying and working in extreme environments.  |
Chemistry World March 2009 Emma Davies |
Fruits of the forest Last summer a team of UK scientists dragged the contents of their lab out into the jungle, to analyse the local atmosphere.  |
Chemistry World August 18, 2009 Jon Cartwright |
Ozone reaction with skin causes irritants Armin Wisthaler of the Leopold-Franzens University of Innsbruck, Austria, and Charles Weschler of Rutgers University in New Jersey, US, have performed a study of ozone with human occupants in an office environment.  |