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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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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... mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
September 25, 2007
Richard Van Noorden
Ozone-Destroying Chemicals to be Phased Out Faster Over 200 nations have agreed at a UN meeting to accelerate the phase-out of refrigerants that destroy the ozone layer. But the revised agreement may spur developing countries to churn out more ozone-depleting HCFCs in the short term. mark for My Articles similar articles
Geotimes
August 2003
Greg Peterson
An ozone-depleting volcano According to a report in the May 15 Nature, the largest source of ozone-depleting bromine may in fact be natural: Volcanoes may spew as much as 140,000 tons of bromine oxide into the atmosphere each year. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
October 6, 2008
Lewis Brindley
Global ozone pollution warning Current controls are failing to protect human health and the environment from increasing ground-level ozone, according to a report by the Royal Society. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Geotimes
August 2004
Naomi Lubick
Susan Solomon: Chemistry in the Clouds The atmospheric scientist, won the Blue Planet Prize last June for her work on the Antarctic ozone hole. The prestigious environmental award is given to two individuals or organizations every year by the Japanese Asahi Glass Foundation, along with 50 million yen (equivalent to about $460,000). mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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... mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
May 7, 2014
Emma Stoye
China's nitrous oxide emissions to triple by 2020 Emissions of nitrous oxide -- a potent greenhouse gas -- from China's chemical industries are increasing rapidly, and are set to triple by 2020 unless measures are put in place to stop them, new projections show. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
December 22, 2014
Andy Extance
Chemistry from the skies promises low-emission nylon raw material Mimicking the breakdown of atmospheric organic compounds has led to a cleaner way to make a key nylon raw material. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
July 31, 2014
Caryl Richards
New source of hydroxyl radicals found in the clouds An international collaboration of scientists has discovered a previously unidentified source of tropospheric hydroxyl radicals generated by the interaction of ozone with the surface of clouds. mark for My Articles similar articles
Reactive Reports
Issue 37
David Bradley
Shipping News International shipping may be one of the largest sources of air pollutants along the Norwegian coast and in the Northern Atlantic. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
August 8, 2013
James Urquhart
Wealth of undiscovered volatiles found drifting above orange groves Scientists have measured the exchange of hundreds of volatile organic compounds in the air above an orange grove in California and the ecosystem below. The finding could have implications for climate and air pollution models mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
November 2007
Mark Peplow
Editorial: Sharing the Wealth Constantly hunting for safer, cleaner alternatives to existing products is one of the things that chemists do best. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
CIO
September 1, 2001
Simone Kaplan
Leave a Smaller Footprint To publicize the importance of reducing emissions of ozone-depleting gases, the World Resources Institute has launched www.safeclimate.net, a website devoted to helping individuals and organizations calculate and reduce their output of carbon dioxide... mark for My Articles similar articles
Wired
September 2000
Verge NASA's new helium-filled balloons are going higher and doing more than ever to understand and predict stratospheric ozone loss... mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
April 6, 2009
Simon Hadlington
Did salt lake halogens help cause mass extinction? Life on Earth was all but obliterated around 250 million years ago - but no-one knows why. mark for My Articles similar articles
Outside
March 2009
Micah Cratty
The Sky Was Falling A "where are they now?" field guide to popular calamities of yore mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
July 21, 2009
Rebecca Trager
Nobel winners call for energy R&D funding Thirty-four Nobel Prize winners are urging US President Obama to make good on his pledge to provide increased, stable funding for energy research and development. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
February 12, 2013
Andrew Turley
Ozone device for food packaging A university spinout in the UK has developed a sterilization device that uses plasma to create ozone inside sealed packaging. mark for My Articles similar articles
Geotimes
November 2006
Carolyn Gramling
Airing Out an Early Atmosphere Scientists have generally thought that oxygen was scarce in Earth's atmosphere until about 2.4 billion years ago. Now a study based on new evidence suggests that oxygen may actually have been around longer than previously thought. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
May 31, 2009
Nina Notman
New probe promises ozone answers Chemists in the US have devised a single-molecule fluorescent probe that is selective for ozone, which they hope will help address controversy over claims that cells can produce ozone. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
March 3, 2015
Rebecca Trager
Proposed ozone rule could cut US GDP by $1.7 trillion The US's new, more restrictive ozone standard of 65 parts per billion could cut America's GDP by $1.7 trillion between 2017 and 2040, according to a new report. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
July 10, 2006
Arthur Rogers
Outdoor Chores Outlawed Under restrictions triggered when ground levels of ozone -- an indicator of photochemical smog -- exceed set thresholds, French officials are empowered to ban certain activities in order to reduce emissions of volatile organic compounds. mark for My Articles similar articles
Scientific American
August 2008
Emily Harrison
Unlikely Victims of Banning CFCs--Asthma Sufferers New CFC-free inhalers cost three times more than their CFC counterparts. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
October 5, 2015
Rebecca Trager
New US ozone standard under fire The US has strengthened air quality standards for ground-level ozone generating a backlash from industry. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
November 26, 2012
Simon Cotton
How everything connects From Stars to Stalagmites by Paul Braterman comprises 16 essays on a wide range of scientific themes, designed to bridge the gap between the chemist and the layman. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
December 2, 2014
Rebecca Trager
US moves to tighten ozone limits The US Environmental Protection Agency has proposed tightening air quality standards for ground-level ozone, a constituent of smog. Industry groups said the new measures were too stringent. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
January 7, 2013
James Urquhart
Kilogram ready to slim down for the new year UK scientists have developed a cleaning technique that could solve a long-standing puzzle in the field of metrology -- how to return the standard kilogram, against which all others are measured, to its original mass. mark for My Articles similar articles
Science News
November 11, 2006
Timeline: From the November 7, 1936, issue Big trees find age rival in Sierra Mountain Juniper... Vaccine for influenza is now ready for trial use... Ozone closer to earth over the polar regions... mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
April 7, 2008
Kira Welter
Industrial emissions boost pollution at coastlines Pollution along our coastlines is worsened by chemical reactions that occur when emissions from ships and heavy industry combine with ocean air, US scientists have found. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
February 27, 2014
Simon Hadlington
Quantum tunnelling sparks chemistry on cold surfaces Chemistry in deep space could be more diverse than thought after the discovery that larger atoms can quantum tunnel. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
September 16, 2011
Rebecca Trager
US job concerns hamper environmental rules Economic woes and pressure to create jobs in the US are impeding environmental regulation, resulting in President Obama being rebuked by traditional allies and applauded by political opponents. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
September 11, 2014
Anu Daniel
Poplar biofuel has potential to offer substantial environmental savings Biofuels have long been suggested as part of the solution to curbing greenhouse gas emissions and our reliance on oil but a new study is seeking to ease the bottleneck in them being adopted on a global scale. mark for My Articles similar articles
Geotimes
June 2005
Sara Pratt
Cosmic Bursts to Blame for Mass Extinction Scientists say that a gamma-ray burst might have triggered the ice age that caused the Ordovician extinction 450 million years ago. mark for My Articles similar articles