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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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The 2024 Election Outcome Could Boost the Case for Geoengineering

Legal Planet

The strategies that seem most risky involve what is called solar radiation management, like adding sulfur dioxide to the atmosphere to reflect more sunlight into space or even launching panels in space to block the sun. A Berkeley scientist once described geoengineering of this kind as the equivalent of chemotherapy.

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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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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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European centre celebrates 50 years at the forefront of weather forecasting

Physics World

EarthCARE has a unique combination of scientific instruments – a cloud-profiling radar, an atmospheric lidar, a multispectral imager and a broadband radiometer – to infer the properties of clouds and how they interact with solar radiation as well as thermal-infrared radiation emitted by different layers of the atmosphere.

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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.