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Volatile Chemical Products: Important Contributors to Harmful Particulate Matter

HumanNature

We breathe oxygen from the atmosphere, weather systems distribute water, and the ozone in the upper atmosphere protects us from harmful radiation. Environmental Science & Technology vol. Environmental Science & Technology vol. Long-Term Trends in Motor Vehicle Emissions in U.S. Urban Areas.

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Antarctic extreme events: ‘All-time records are being shattered not from decades ago, but from the last few years and months’

Frontiers

A new study published in Frontiers in Environmental Science has revealed that, in addition to the influence of gradual global heating, Antarctica is increasingly affected by extreme environmental events; a recognized and predicted outcome of our heating world.

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The Fuss about Methane

Legal Planet

For other gases, the GWP depends on two different properties of the gas: how strongly it absorbs infrared radiation; and how long it stays in the atmosphere after it is emitted. Human-source atmospheric methane now adds slightly less than 1 watt per square meter (W/m 2 ) of radiative forcing, versus 1.7 W/m 2 from elevated CO 2.

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Vice Chair Of DEP Citizens Advisory Council Asks DEP To Report On University Of Pittsburgh Study That Found At Least 800,000 Tons Of Oil & Gas Production Waste Sent To Landfills Was Unaccounted For In One Year

PA Environment Daily

A collaborative research study led by Daniel Bain, University of Pittsburgh associate professor of geology and environmental science, analyzed records as well as soil samples to better understand the effects of disposing of this waste in facilities that were not built to contain radioactive waste. “And

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Using Environmental Data As a Business: Where Do You Start?

Breezometer

The Environmental Data Revolution. Environmental science emerged as a formal discipline during the Enlightenment era of the 17th and 18th centuries. How Big Data & AI Gave Rise to Powerful Environmental Prediction Models. Health-focused Environmental Insights & New Business Use Cases. Oceanography surveys.

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Physics: The Science of the Universe and Everything In It

Environmental Science

Today, it overlaps with many other sciences and has had a profound impact on the environmental sciences just as chemistry has. It also underpins the physical sciences by providing the theoretical framework on which it may base its own assumptions and basic theoretical models. How Physics Applies to Environmental Science.

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Carbon-Labeled Beef: It’s What’s for Dinner

Vermont Law

which results in a land surface that reflects more solar radiation and disrupts the natural temperature cycling provided by forest cover. Converting forested land into beef ranchland has significant environmental impacts, as described above. in Environmental Science at the University of Texas at Austin. I earned a B.S.