Pollution

Key to cleaner environment may be right beneath our feet!   Streams stressed by pharmaceutical pollution

Researchers pinpoint how trees play a role in smog production 

Exposure to environmental contaminants today can influence behavior generations later

Silver nanoparticles may adversely affect environment 

Impact of mega-cities on air pollution and climate   Tracking pollution from outer space

Small, portable sensors allow users to monitor exposure to pollution on their smart phones

Worldwide increase of air pollution     Climate change and air quality   Air pollution and climate change

Effects of 'business-as-usual' anthropenic emissions on air quality     Clean air technologies

Response of air stagnation frequency to anthropogenically enhanced radiative forcing 

Groundbreaking air-cleaner saves polluting industrials     New paints break down nitrogen oxides 

Study finds flame retardent pollutants at far-flung locations

Transgenerational actions of environmental compounds on reproductive disease and identification of epigenetic biomarkers of ancestral exposure

The impacts of endocrine disrupters on wildlife, people and their environments

Billions in savings in health costs through reduces air pollution   Climate and Clean Air Coalition

Manmade pollutants may be driving Earth's tropical belt expansion

Airborne pollutants lead a double life

Long-term study shows acid pollution in rain decreases with emissions

Upper atmosphere facilitates changes that let mercury enter food chain

UN: a global synopsis of land -based pollution sources science and transboundary management  (Analysis Report) 

Toxic mercury, accumulating in the Arctic, springs from a hidden source

Nitrogen from humans pollutes remote lakes for more than a century

Antibacterial agent used in common soaps found in increasing amounts in freshwater lakes 

Nitrogen pollution changing Rocky Mountain National Park vegetation

Megacity emissions and lifetimes of nitrogen oxides probed from space 

Research finds maganese concentrations higher in residential neighborhoods than industrial sites, levels vay by region.

Coal-Tar-Based pavement Sealcoat and PAHs: Implications for the environment, human health, and stormwater management

Integrated Assessment of Black Carbon and Tropospheric Ozone   Report to Congress on Black Carbon

Reconsideration of the planetary boundary for phosphorous   Climate Change and POPS: predicting the impact

Novel device removes heavy metals from water   Evidence of oceanic 'green rust' offers hope for the future

Environmental Pollutants Lurk Long After They "Disappear"    Plastic pollution

Nutrient pollution of coastal rivers, bays, and seas.   Impacts of atmospheric pollution on aquatic ecosystems

Maths formula leads researchers to source of pollution

Regional:

NASA finds sea ice driving Artic air pollutants    Arctic ozone levels in never-before-seen plunge

High level of lead found in Indian Ocean    

Black carbon aerosols over Manora Peak in the Indian Himalayan foothills: implications for climate forcing  

The sea as a rubbish tip  Pacific plastic soup grew 100-fold

EU to extend coastal pollution fines to 200 nautical miles   Monitoring chemical pollution in Europe's seas

EPFL Model shows how façade pollutants make it into the environment

Newly found health effects of air pollution call for stronger EU air policies

Satellite Confirms Sharp Decline in Pollution from U.S. Coal Power Plants 

NIST Releases Two New SRMs for Monitoring Human Exposure to Environmental Toxins

Setting Limits: Using Air Pollution Thresholds to Protect and Restore U.S. Ecosystems

Changes in th frequency and return level of high ozone pollution events over the eastern US following emission controls

Seabirds study shows plastic pollution reaching surprising levels off coast of US Pacific Northwest

Asian emissions can increase ground-level ozone pollution in the US West

Lead isotopes yield clues to how Asian air pollution reaches California

Influence of future climate and emissions on regional air quality in California

EPA issues first national standards for mercury pollution from power plants

US National Atmospheric Deposition Program    Flexibility for the Future

2010 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data from large facilities now available

Eastern US 48-hour Air Quality Forecasts (12 km horizontal resolution) 

Mercury in coastal fog linked to upwelling of deep ocean water

UI engineers conduct residential soils study, one of few such U.S. studies ever done

Climate and Air Pollution Modelling in South America with Focus on Megacities

Peru industrial pollution feeds conflict
 
China to slow GDP growth in bid to curb emissions

Light shed on key component of China's pollution problem

Assessing economic impacts of China’s water pollution mitigation measures through a dynamic computable general equilibrium analysis

Bangaladesh: LLNL helps find link to arsenic-contamintaed groundwater

Contamination of La Selva geothermal system in Girona, Spain

New study links air pollution and early death in the UK

Nitrogen oxide emissions still a major problem in Europe

Traffic pollution still harmful to health in Europe

Australian shipping emissions identified

Arabian Sea Tropical Cyclones Are Intensified by Air Pollution,

The impact of African air pollution - A global chemistry climate model study  

  

 

Europe clears the air    Many Europeans still exposed to harmful air pollutants

European Reference Materials website

 

The last decade of global anthropogenic sulfur dioxide: 2000–2011 emissions