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Answering that age-old lament: Where does all this dust come from?
In the study, David Layton and Paloma Beamer point out that household dust consists of a potpourri that includes dead skin shed by people, fibers from carpets and upholstered furniture, and tracked-in...
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Read moreMobile lab allows MSU researchers to study air quality
Jack Harkema, a University Distinguished Professor of pathobiology and diagnostic investigation in the College of Veterinary Medicine, will deploy the new 53-foot, 36,000-pound center - dubbed "A...
Ecology, The Environment and Conservation | Read moreWhen children have breathing problems
Although the key external causes of these diseases were identified a long time ago (traffic and industrial air pollution), it had not previously been possible to distinguish clearly between these two ...
Health and Medicine | Read moreStudy shows maritime shipping makes hefty contribution to air pollution
The study is the first to provide a global estimate of maritime shipping's total contribution to air particle pollution based on direct emission measurements. The authors estimate ships emit abou...
Earth Sciences | Read moreIndoor Air Pollution Increases Asthma Symptoms
The study, which followed a group of asthmatic children in Baltimore, Md., is among the first to examine the effects of indoor particulate matter pollution. The results are published in the February 2...
Health and Medicine | Read more'Refinery dust' reveals clues about local polluters
Cloaked in the clouds of emissions and exhaust that hang over the city are clues that lead back to the polluting culprits, and a research team led by the University of Houston is hot on their trails....
Ecology, The Environment and Conservation | Read moreSize Selective Real-Time Gravimetry of Small Airborne Particles
The need for environmental monitoring becomes more and more evident on the background of new knowledge concerning noxious effects of fine and particularly ultra fine particulate matter. But in fact me...
Technology Offerings | Read moreWhere there's wildfire smoke, there's toxicity
The health threat to city dwellers posed by Southern California wildfires like those of November 2008 may have been underestimated by officials.Detailed particulate analysis of the smoke produ...
Ecology, The Environment and Conservation | Read moreInternational Field Campaign Examines Impact of Beetle Kill on Rocky Mountain Weather, Air Quality
Mountain pine beetles appear to be doing more than killing large swaths of forests in the Rocky Mountains. Scientists suspect they are also altering local weather patterns and air quality.A ne...
Earth Sciences | Read moreSize Selective Real-Time Gravimetry of Small Airborne Particles
The need for environmental monitoring becomes more and more evident on the background of new knowledge concerning noxious effects of fine and particularly ultra fine particulate matter. But in fact me...
Technology Offerings | Read moreUlster Scientists Join Intelligent Rescue Robot Partnership
The small helicopters would be remotely controlled and would be able to send back pictures and data to a central command post. They would also be able to communicate with each other to co-ordinate the...
Information Technology | Read morePilot study reinforces use of portable anteroom HEPA filtration
Amidst an increase in new tuberculosis cases, researchers have begun investigating the effectiveness of new operating room filtration systems designed to protect staff and patients. According to pilot...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreArable land can have a negative impact on air quality
Fallow agricultural land and steppe-formation processes are evidently capable of having a much greater effect on global air quality than was previously assumed.This is the conclusion drawn by ...
Agricultural and Forestry Science | Read moreLink between ozone air pollution and premature death confirmed
Ozone, a key component of smog, can cause respiratory problems and other health effects. In addition, evidence of a relationship between short-term -- less than 24 hours -- exposure to ozone and mort...
Ecology, The Environment and Conservation | Read moreBlack carbon pollution emerges as major player in global warming
Black carbon, a form of particulate air pollution most often produced from biomass burning, cooking with solid fuels and diesel exhaust, has a warming effect in the atmosphere three to four times grea...
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