and pollution especially from garbage floating on the ocean. The birds ingest large amounts of marine debris--by some estimates 5 tons of plastic are fed unknowingly to albatross chicks each year by their parents.
River lake and wetland ecosystems--encompassing approximately one-fifth of the Amazon basin area--are being degraded increasingly by deforestation pollution construction of dams
and it reduces other forms of environmental pollution but it does not reduce greenhouse gas emissions said Dr Perino an environmental economist in the School of economics and member of the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE) at UEA.
#Shedding light on role of Amazon forests in global carbon cycleearth's forests perform a well-known service to the planet absorbing a great deal of the carbon dioxide pollution emitted into the atmosphere from human activities.
and climate benefits of air pollution control and pinpoint where emission reductions will have the greatest impacts.
This is particularly important in developing countries like China where severe air pollution problems are of greater concern to public officials than climate change mitigation in the short term.
In waterways adjacent to healthy pine forests concentrations of nitrate is generally far lower than in rivers on the plains in the West like the South platte said Lewis. Nitrate pollution is caused by agricultural runoff from populated areas and by permitted
If water resource monitoring detects no insecticide pollution in waterways and as a result no exceeding of the threshold levels this is
which no pollution has been detected distorts the evaluation and simulates a false sense of safety. Samples showing no evidence of insecticide pollution should
therefore not be considered--at least as long as environmental impact monitoring takes place statically. Still better would be related event sampling at least in high-risk areas.
Efficient counter-measuresthe environmental pollution of water resources could be reduced with a number of cost-effective and efficient measures:
Abundant gas may have a lot of benefits--economic growth local air pollution energy security and so on. There's been some hope that slowing climate change could also be one of its benefits
and environmental taxes on electricity and gasoline is the most effective way for politicians to get consumers to understand the problems of smoking and pollution.
and face many threats such as coastal pollution dredging and disease. However some of their most widespread threats involve warming ocean temperatures solar radiation and increased ocean acidification.
which shows China's growing economy has caused also serious stresses on the country's freshwater both in terms of consumption and pollution.
and pollution is decreasing it needs to tackle the cumulative pollution--triggered by manufacturing and capital investments
and stagnant air conditions the lack of precipitation has triggered a dangerous increase in wildfires and incidents of air pollution across the state.
while nitrogen pollution has changed soil chemistry in Canada and Panama. Continents apart these changes have all been documented by the Smithsonian-led Center for Tropical forest Science-Forest Global Earth Observatory CTFS-Forestgeo
The survey covers not only greenhouse gas impacts but also fracking's influence on local air pollution earthquakes and especially supplies of clean water.
Fracking's impact on both climate change and local air pollution is similar to its impact on water finds the study The Environmental Costs and Benefits of Fracking published in the Annual Review of Environment and Resources.
While the increased gas supply reduces air pollution in U s. cities downwind from coal-fired power plants we still don't know
and causing pollution and environmental devastation by flouting the law said Sam Lawson the report author.
and black-footed albatross are facing increasing levels of oil contamination plastic pollution and greatly reduced amounts of prey fish due to commercial fishing operations.
#Ozone pollution in India kills enough crops to feed 94 million in povertyin one year India's ozone pollution damaged millions of tons of the country's major
Rising emissions are causing severe ozone pollution in some of India's most populated regions.
Pollution in Delhi the nation's capital has reached levels comparable to Beijing one of the most polluted cities in the world according to India's Air Monitoring Center.
There are currently no air quality standards in India designed to protect agriculture from the effects of ground-level ozone pollution according to the new study.
According to the new study published Aug 14 in Geophysical Research Letters a journal of the American Geophysical Union surface ozone pollution damaged 6 million metric tons (6. 7 million
Wheat--one of the country's major food sources--saw the largest loss by weight of the four crops studied in the new paper with ozone pollution damaging 3. 5 million metric tons (3
Policy implicationsghude said the new paper which is the first to quantify how much damage India's ozone pollution has caused the country's major crops on a national level could help policymakers craft new ozone pollution standards.
and rice lost to ozone pollution was equal to 9. 2 percent of the new law's subsidized cereal requirement.
Calculating ozone damagethe researchers calculated the amount of total crop damage from ozone pollution by comparing emissions estimates from 2005 with data about how much ozone each of the four crops could withstand.
The team ran the model with different emissions estimates to come up with an average amount of each crop that was lost due to ozone pollution.
With SAV already stressed by nutrient pollution it was Tropical Storm Agnes in 1972--a three-day weather event in June that dumped up to 19 inches of rain on the region
Researchers found that modest reductions in nutrient pollution to the Bay beginning in the late 1980s had led to long-term improvements to water clarity
Food production is a main driver of biodiversity loss and a large contributor to climate change and pollution so our food choices matter.
More than a dozen theories have now been proposed for the so-called global warming hiatus ranging from air pollution to volcanoes to sunspots.
It was thought to be caused by air pollution. Earlier records in Central England show the 40-to 70-year cycle goes back centuries
We calculate that 5 to 10 percent of worldwide air pollution mortalities are due to biomass burning Jacobson said.
But the thermal and pollution effects of its combustion--in any form--can't be discounted Jacobson said.
#Climate change and air pollution will combine to curb food suppliesmany studies have shown the potential for global climate change to cut food supplies.
and air pollution--specifically ozone pollution which is known to damage crops. A new study involving researchers at MIT shows that these interactions can be quite significant suggesting that policymakers need to take both warming and air pollution into account in addressing food security.
The study looked in detail at global production of four leading food crops--rice wheat corn
and ozone pollution can damage plants and reduce crop yields nobody has looked at these together. And while rising temperatures are discussed widely the impact of air quality on crops is recognized less.
In the United states tougher air-quality regulations are expected to lead to a sharp decline in ozone pollution mitigating its impact on crops.
But the effects of ozone pollution are more complex--some crops are affected more strongly by it than others
--which suggests that pollution-control measures could play a major role in determining outcomes. Ozone pollution can also be tricky to identify Heald says
because its damage can resemble other plant illnesses producing flecks on leaves and discoloration. Potential reductions in crop yields are worrisome:
Under some scenarios the researchers found that pollution-control measures could make a major dent in the expected crop reductions following climate change.
Air pollution is even more decisive in shaping undernourishment in the developing world the researchers found: Under the more pessimistic air-quality scenario rates of malnourishment might increase from 18 to 27 percent by 2050--about a 50 percent jump;
Agricultural production is very sensitive to ozone pollution Heald says adding that these findings show how important it is to think about the agricultural implications of air-quality regulations.
#Trees save lives, reduce respiratory problemsin the first broad-scale estimate of air pollution removal by trees nationwide U s. Forest Service scientists
While trees'pollution removal equated to an average air quality improvement of less than 1 percent the impacts of that improvement are substantial.
Researchers valued the human health effects of the reduced air pollution at nearly $7 billion every year in a study published recently in the journal Environmental Pollution.
of air pollution with improved human health effects and associated health values. The scientists found that pollution removal is substantially higher in rural areas than urban areas
however the effects on human health are substantially greater in urban areas than rural areas. With more than 80 percent of Americans living in urban area this research underscores how truly essential urban forests are to people across the nation said Michael T. Rains Director of the Forest Service's Northern Research Station and the Forest
Health effects related to air pollution include impacts on pulmonary cardiac vascular and neurological systems. In the United states approximately 130000 PM2. 5-related deaths and 4700 ozone-related deaths in 2005 were attributed to air pollution.
Trees'benefits vary with tree cover across the nation. Tree cover in the United states is estimated at 34.2 percent
We found that in general the greater the tree cover the greater the pollution removal and the greater the removal and population density the greater the value of human health benefits.
#Light pollution may affect love lives of birds in the Viennese Forestsartificial light in cities exerts negative effects on humans animals and their environment.
In an ongoing research project behavioral biologists at Vetmeduni Vienna are investigating how blue tits in the Viennese Forests react to light pollution.
Does light pollution affect the honesty of sexual signals? We assume that light at night affects the birds'strategies of choosing partners.
The research project Does Light Pollution affect the Breeding Performance of wild Blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus) in the Viennese Forest?
The paper provides the most comprehensive analysis to date linking legal recognition and government protection of community forest rights with reductions in carbon pollution.
and settlers from illegally destroying the forests and releasing carbon pollution into the atmosphere. In Brazil alone the report finds strong legal rights could contribute to preventing 27.2 million hectares of deforestation by 2050 translating to 12 billion tonnes of avoided carbon dioxide emissions--the same as about three years'worth of carbon dioxide
Indonesia for example the world's second largest emitter of carbon pollution from deforestation and other land uses legally recognizes only one of approximately 42 million hectares of forests held by communities.
and ice and quantify effects of pollution on tropical rainfall --which are important assessments for climate models.
That's an expensive and energy-intensive step designed to prevent pollution of surface-and ground-waters.
and improving other management strategies such as protection from overfishing and excessive coastal pollution could help the reefs recover
Reefs protected from overfishing as well as other threats such as excessive coastal pollution tourism and coastal development are more resilient to pressures from climate change according to the authors.
which can reduce greenhouse gases cut down exposure to pollution and provide mental health benefits. However the effect on buildings from the mix of pollutants and organic chemicals has not been accounted previously for.
which can reduce greenhouse gases cut down exposure to pollution and provide mental health benefits. However the effect on buildings from the mix of pollutants and organic chemicals has not been accounted previously for.
Secondly there would be associated benefits with lower EU energy imports as a 2â°C scenario would lead to a substantial reduction in net energy imports in the EU. Thirdly the additional benefits due to lower air pollution of the 2â
This would result in lower local air pollution. SINTEF Energy which is running the project is getting assistance from several international partners.
Air pollution is a complex and pervasive public health problem notes John Groopman Phd Anna M. Baetjer Professor of Environmental Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public health
in addition to the engineering solutions to reduce regional pollution emissions we need to translate our basic science into strategies to protect individuals from these exposures.
Air pollution an increasing global problem causes as many as seven million deaths a year worldwide according to the World health organization
Last year the International Agency for Research on Cancer classified air pollution and particulate matter (PM) from air pollution as carcinogenic to humans.
This study points to a frugal simple and safe means that can be taken by individuals to possibly reduce some of the long-term health risks associated with air pollution notes Thomas Kensler Phd professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School
Pollution and heavy fertilizer use have increased soil cadmium levels in China for example. In humans cadmium can damage internal organs and cause cancer.
Our data clearly demonstrate that cleaning up air pollution continues to have desired the effect of improving water quality for our region's lakes said NHAES researcher William Mcdowell professor of environmental science and director of the NH Water Resources Research center.
and other emissions it could well face new regulations Tour said noting the White house issued its latest National Climate Assessment last month and this week set new rules to cut carbon pollution from the nation
air nicotinesmoking waterpipes or hookahs creates hazardous concentrations of indoor air pollution and poses increased risk from diminished air quality for both employees and patrons of waterpipe bars according to a new
Our study found that waterpipe smoking creates higher levels of indoor air pollution than cigarette smoking placing patrons and employees at increased health risk from secondhand smoke exposure.
#Rules to cut carbon emissions also reduce air pollution harmful to people, environmentsetting strong standards for climate-changing carbon emissions from power plants would provide an added bonus--reductions in other air pollutants that can make people sick;
Air pollution Changes under Different 111d Options for Existing Power plants use three policy options for the forthcoming EPA rule as a guide to model changes in power plant emissions of four other harmful
which contribute to local and regional air pollution. This is an opportunity to both mitigate climate change
The U s. EPA is expected to release its proposed rules for carbon pollution from existing power plants June 2.
The result is saved not only money but less pollution from fossil fuels which aids public health--a natural goal for hospitals to have said Sites.
and natural gas is the largest methane pollution source in the United Statesâ#said Howarth who explains in an upcoming journal article that Earth may reach the point of no return
and can be a source of indoor air pollution. The long-term biological effects of use are still unknown the authors said.
#Dangerous nitrogen pollution could be halvedthe most important fertilizer for producing food is at the same time one of the most important risks for human health:
If no action is taken nitrogen pollution could rise by 20 percent by 2050 in a middle-of-the-road scenario according to a study now published by scientists of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.
Ambitious mitigation efforts however could decrease the pollution by 50 percent. The analysis is the very first to quantify this.
Ambitious mitigation efforts however could decrease the pollution by 50 percent. The analysis is the very first to quantify this.
About half of these nitrogen pollution damages are from agriculture. This is why the scientists ran extensive computer simulations to explore the effects of different mitigation measures.
A package of mitigation actions can reverse this trend yet the risk remains that nitrogen pollution still exceeds safe environmental thresholds.
and prevent pollution farmers can more carefully target fertilizer application to plants'needs using soil measurements.
and reduce pollution. Health effects of nitrogen pollution more important than climate effectsthe nitrogen cycle is interwoven with the climate system in various ways Hermann Lotze-Campen points out co-author of the study
and co-chair of PIK's research domain Climate Impacts and Vulnerabilities. Nitrous oxide or laughing gas on the one hand is one of the major greenhouse gases.
Currently the health effects of nitrogen pollution are clearly more important because the different climate effects largely cancel out says Lotze-Campen.
Previous research has shown that aquatic invertebrate species do not respond to pollution similarly with a large variation in sensitivity among organisms.
Previous research has shown that aquatic invertebrate species do not respond to pollution similarly with a large variation in sensitivity among organisms.
Scientists debate the cause of this global dimming with many scientists attributing it to pollution particles injected into the atmosphere by human activity that deflect incoming sunlight.
and productivity of many marine species. The rising temperature and changing chemistry of ocean water combine with other stresses such as overfishing and coastal and marine pollution to alter marine-based food production
and reduce pollution The findings could help mitigate the effects of the release of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere from both natural gas seeps in the environment
#Nitrogen pollution, climate and land use: Why what we eat mattersa new report quantifies for the first time how much our food choices affect pollutant nitrogen emissions climate change and land-use across Europe.
and soil pollution greenhouse gas emissions simultaneously reducing threats to human health biodiversity and food security.
Our new study shows that adopting a demitarian*diet across Europe would reduce nitrogen pollution levels by about 40
The UNECE Task force on Reactive Nitrogen is tasked with providing policy makers in the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air pollution with scientific evidence to support international decision making on environmental policies especially as these link air pollution with water
The result is that countries fear that tackling nitrogen pollution will reduce their international competitiveness.
The present study shows that there is huge power for pollution control in simply reducing our meat and dairy consumption.
and researcher at the Air pollution Unit of the Italian National Agency for New Technologies Energy and Sustainable Economic Development has been involved in a number of food pilot projects in Italian schools.
Coal-fired power plants produce a lot of pollution so any measures that will reduce our combustion of coal will also help us to fight air pollution.
This will be particularly important for China he said which has been plagued by skyrocketing air pollution from coal power plants used to fuel its industrial expansion.
Experts estimate that a quarter of a million people die prematurely each year in China because of air pollution from the country's coal-fired power plants.
Air pollution rose beginning with the Industrial revolution and started to improve when the U s. Clean Air Act of 1970 required coal power plants and other polluters to scrub sulfur out of their smokestacks.
They discovered a link between the two forms of pollution in the geologic record. Nitrogen is emitted as a short-lived compound NOX
Nitrogen pollution is a major problem in inland waterways and coastal regions where it contributes to the formation of dead zones.
In an era of climate change pollution and the global spread of pathogens these new grains must also be able to handle stress.
According to CLF researchers urban soils are often close to pollution sources such as industrial areas and heavily trafficked roads.
Carbon dioxide emissions from the energy and transportation sectors currently account for the largest share of climate pollution.
and dairy consumption is key to bringing agricultural climate pollution down to safe levels says Fredrik Hedenus one of the study authors.
or technology these growing numbers of people eating more meat and dairy entail increasing amounts of climate pollution from the food sector.
Cheese and other dairy products will account for about one quarter of total agricultural climate pollution. Story Source:
#Health costs of air pollution from agriculture clarifiedammonia pollution from agricultural sources poses larger health costs than previously estimated according to NASA-funded research.
The improved simulation helped the scientists narrow in on the estimated health costs from air pollution associated with food produced for export--a growing sector of agriculture and a source of trade surplus.
#Light pollution impairs rainforest regeneration: Seed-dispersing bats avoid feeding in light polluted areasincreasing light pollution in tropical habitats could be hampering regeneration of rainforests because of its impact on nocturnal seed-dispersers.
These new findings were reported by scientists from the German Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research Berlin (IZW.
By reducing foraging of fruit-eating bats in lit areas light pollution is likely to reduce seed rain he commented.
In many tropical countries light pollution is increasing rapidly as economies and human populations grow.
The impact of light pollution could be reduced by changes in lighting design and by setting up dark refuges connected by dark corridors for light-sensitive species like bats Lewanzik says.
or from pollution could help explain why that region has warmed not as much as other places.
But a variety of human influences from bridge building to runoff pollution to smothering loads of sediment have threatened these grass beds globally.
This means that on the scale of food crops adding significant levels of nitrogen to the soil through fertilizer presents a number of problems particularly river and groundwater pollution.
and decrease fertilizer-caused pollution. Their method is applicable to any transporter from any organism thereby enabling the otherwise exceptionally difficult analysis of transport processes in the tissues of plants and animals.
research showsresearchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) using specialized monitoring technology have determined that intensive organic agriculture can cause significant pollution from nitrate leaching into groundwater.
and to reduce industrial and groundwater pollution worldwide. But according to the paper published in the Hydrology
and Earth System Sciences journal intensive organic matter using composted manure prior to planting resulted in significantly higher groundwater pollution rates compared with liquid fertilization techniques through drip irrigation.
While groundwater pollution is attributed usually to a large array of chemicals high nitrate concentration in aquifer water is the main cause for drinking-water well shutdowns.
This natural process for producing methane forms the basis for treating municipal and industrial wastes helps reduce pollution
We might do a lot of work to reduce air pollution from road vehicle and industrial emissions but in a warmer future world the natural ecosystems are just going to bring the ozone
Many scientists have proposed new drivers such as pollution from pesticides as the cause of these declines.
We call this phenomenon'Pathogen Pollution 'and bees are no exception--the role of introduced mites
While the findings are preliminary the approach could be effective in clarifying the implications of herbicide pollution for plant conservation Egan said.
Yasuor and colleagues designed a study to investigate ways to reduce environmental pollution by increasing nitrogen use efficiency in vegetables without negatively affecting fruit yield or quality.
and throughout the world have shown that air pollution levels are elevated especially near high-volume roadways. A multidisciplinary group of researchers planners and policymakers recently gathered in Sacramento Calif. to discuss roadside vegetation as a viable option for mitigating these adverse health impacts from air pollution.
The group combined their key concerns and findings for an article in TR News magazine.
while having the potential to reduce air pollution because plants naturally capture some of the pollutants emitted by traffic.
To field test the device the Rice team installed it on a mobile laboratory used during NASA's DISCOVER-AQ campaign which analyzed pollution on the ground and from the air last September.
and test webs to monitor pollution levels--for example to check for pesticides that might be harming bee populations.'
You need to limit pollution. Getting water policy to move anywhere in the world requires a true water shock.
habitat degradation due to development, insecticides, parasites such as the Varroa mite and air pollution, that interferes with a bees'ability to find scents.
For decades, the Chinese people had little access to pollution data from their government, and multinational companies using Chinese factories that were egregious polluters went largely scot free.
what they â¢ve never had before--easy access to pollution records. The results have been staggering:
Ma â¢s IPE has developed pollution databases and online maps that give citizens and companies doing business in China,
and public access to pollution data about its own air and water was guarded closely by the government.
granting access to pollution data for the first time. Still, China's regulatory system is set up into regional fiefdoms,
 The databases gave journalists and environmental activists in China easy, quick access to government pollution records.
not a single violation was based on environmental pollution, Â the report said. Å The public has no way of knowing
They also documented sometimes outrageous pollution. Â Using data collected by Ma, a number of significant environmental violations at companies that made parts
Dongguan Shengyi, was the subject of constant pollution complaints from its neighbors. The complaints were ignored until IPE unearthed records that exposed the magnitude of the company â¢s pollution.
In 2009, this company produced 7831.98 tons of hazardous waste, making it Dongguan City Ëoes number one company for producing hazardous waste,
Urban trees in the conterminous United states remove about 784,000 tons of air pollution each year. Storing carbon:
In the middle of the city, do you worry about pollution? That was a concern, and we did a lot of research.
and more pollution of all kinds. In fact, as of 2008 for the first time in world history more people live in cities than in rural areas.
and our built environment--and by extension, the pollution produced by manufacturing the materials needed to make
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