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Chemistry World
July 31, 2014
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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.   |
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. |
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
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. |
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. |
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. |
Popular Mechanics
April 2008
Joe Pappalardo |
Sat Shot Over as Scientists Turn to Balloons for Space Particles Scientists eager to avoid wait lists to launch satellite instrumentation use balloons to detect condition of cosmic atmosphere. |
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. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
June 2005 |
NASA Project Uses Data Recorder From BiTMICRO Penn State designers used the E-Disk flash drive on their Cosmic Rays Energetics And Mass (CREAM) project, a high-altitude balloon experiment that investigated the composition of ultra high-energy cosmic rays with NASA's Long Duration Balloon (LDB) vehicle technology. |
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. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
December 2005 |
NASA picks Octagon Systems for balloon computer The PC-680 SBC is able to manage data flow for NASA's Long Duration Balloon (LDB) program. |
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 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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Popular Mechanics
May 29, 2009
Kyle Roerink |
6 Balloon Records on Par With A Flying Home The ballooning strategy Carl uses in the movie UP, called cluster ballooning, first started in 1937 and is gaining popularity today. |
