Air Pollution Atmosphere Radiation 
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 7, 2025
In that year, El Nio added to the increased warming caused by the build-up of heat-trapping emissions in the atmosphere, leading to that record-breaking heat. Albedo is the total reflection of incoming solar radiation by Earth. This question was a focus at the 2024 annual American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting in Washington, D.C.,
Real Climate
SEPTEMBER 19, 2021
But methane’s role in atmospheric chemistry and as a source of stratospheric water vapour means that it has a bigger effect on climate than just the direct effect of its concentration. Before we go any further though, we need to understand that the effective perturbation time for CO 2 and CH 4 in the atmosphere are very different.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Workers in facilities that produce and use EtO as well as people living near facilities that release it into the atmosphere are at risk of unsafe exposures even when the facilities are using the best available technologies to handle and contain it. Have I been exposed to ethylene oxide?
PA Environment Daily
APRIL 3, 2023
Marsha Haley: University of Pittsburgh radiation oncologist – Speaking about health risks associated with oil and gas industry’s radioactive emissions, the various radioactive elements involved, and the research she is currently involved with on the topic. Haley, M.D.,
Breezometer
DECEMBER 7, 2021
Our ozone layer serves as a lifesaving UV barrier for planet earth, functioning to absorb most of the sun’s ultraviolet radiation. At the same time, ground-level ozone pollution is extremely harmful to human health. As the complexity of ozone pollution is often misunderstood, let's take a closer look at this particular pollutant.
Breezometer
JULY 6, 2021
Governments, agencies, and scientific bodies tend to use a range of environmental monitoring methods to set emission standards and inform on pollution levels, conservation efforts, sustainable water management, and even measure economic impacts. Some examples of methods used to collect data include: Air pollution monitoring stations.
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 12, 2022
million of their product not leaking into the atmosphere, at current natural gas prices. DEP again repeated their legal position that Act 52 does not apply to regulations promulgated under the state Air Pollution Control Act like the one before the Board for the vote. The alternative for Rep.
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