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Wildfires kill 339,000 people per year: studyVancouver (AFP) Feb 18, 2012 Wildfires, peat fires and controlled burns on farming lands kill 339,000 people worldwide each year, said a study released on Saturday that is the first to estimate a death toll for landscape fires. Most of those deaths are concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa, where an estimated 157,000 people die as a result of being exposed to such fires annually, with southeast Asia ranking second with 110,000 deaths. "I was surprised at our estimate being so high when you consider that the exposure to fire sm ... read more |
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Global temps soar: China, Spain, and Japan all report warmest seasons on record
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 Clean soot particle filters The soot particle filters found on diesel vehicles are designed to ensure that no harmful particles make their way through the exhaust pipe. Often, though, the exhaust from newer-model engines is no ... more | .. |
 Which Way Does the Wind Blow? Let's Find Out! On a bluff overlooking the Atlantic, Grady Koch spent a month watching ocean winds. He beamed a laser over the sea, day after day, measuring conditions offshore using an instrument called Doppler Ae ... more | .. |
 Beijing air pollution 'hazardous': US embassy Air pollution in Beijing reached "hazardous" levels on Monday, the US embassy said, as thick smog blanketed the city for the third day running, forcing the closure of highways and cancellation of flights. ... more | .. |
 New tool clears the air on cloud simulations Climate models have a hard time representing clouds accurately because they lack the spatial resolution necessary to accurately simulate the billowy air masses. But Livermore scientists and in ... more |
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 Bacteria forge nitrogen from nitric oxide The anaerobic oxidation of ammonia (anammox) is an important pathway in the nitrogen cycle that was only discovered in the 1980s. Currently, scientists estimate that about 50 percent of the nitrogen ... more | .. |
 From myth to reality: Photos prove triple rainbows exist Few people have ever claimed to see three rainbows arcing through the sky at once. In fact, scientific reports of these phenomena, called tertiary rainbows, were so rare - only five in 250 years - t ... more | .. |
 When water and air meet Findings by researchers at the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute and their colleagues at Tohoku University and in the Netherlands have resolved a long-standing debate over the structure of water mole ... more | .. |
 China rethinks air pollution reporting China has proposed stricter standards for determining its air pollution index. ... more |
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 Air quality has continued to improve in Finnish Lapland Trends in the concentrations of nearly sixty atmospheric pollutants have been studied using the data collected in Finland at the Pallas-Sodankyla Observatory from 1996 to 2009. Concentrations of pol ... more | .. |
 Global portrait of greenhouse gases emerges from pole-to-pole flights A three-year series of research flights from the Arctic to the Antarctic has successfully produced an unprecedented portrait of greenhouse gases and particles in the atmosphere, scientists announced ... more | .. |
 Microbes travel through the air Preliminary research on Fusarium, a group of fungi that includes devastating pathogens of plants and animals, shows how these microbes travel through the air. Researchers now believe that with impro ... more | .. |
 Fast, cheap, and accurate: Detecting CO2 with a fluorescent twist Detecting specific gases in the air is possible using a number of different existing technologies, but typically all of these suffer from one or more drawbacks including high energy cost, large size ... more |
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 Eat, Prey, Rain What do a herd of gazelles and a fluffy mass of clouds have in common? A mathematical formula that describes the population dynamics of such prey animals as gazelles and their predators has been use ... more | .. |
 Researchers Examine Way to Undercut Dust Emissions There is literally a way to undercut dust emissions in the very driest parts of the Pacific Northwest's Columbia Plateau region, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientist. ... more | .. |
 Researchers Study Pesticide Pathways into the Atmosphere When soil moisture levels increase, pesticide losses to the atmosphere through volatilization also rise. In one long-term field study, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists found that her ... more | .. |
 Punching Holes in the Sky Scientists, photographers and amateur cloud watchers have been looking up with wonderment and puzzlement at "hole punch" clouds for decades. Giant, open spaces appear in otherwise continuous cloud c ... more |
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European mission to imitate solar eclipse launches from India
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 Air pollution linked to learning and memory problems and depression Long-term exposure to air pollution can lead to physical changes in the brain, as well as learning and memory problems and even depression, new research in mice suggests. While other studies h ... more | .. |
 Big Hole Filled in Cloud Research Under certain conditions, private and commercial propeller planes and jet aircraft may induce odd-shaped holes or canals into clouds as they fly through them. These holes and canals have long fascin ... more | .. |
 New EPA rule targets blowing emissions The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued final regulations capping pollution from coal-fired power plants. ... more | .. |
 Sounding rockets study how winds in space drive currents in the upper atmosphere Some 50 miles up in the sky begins a dynamic region of the atmosphere known as the ionosphere. The region is filled with charged particles created by extreme ultraviolet radiation from the sun. ... more |
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 US airlines fight EU's emissions rules in court US airlines took their battle against the European Union's emissions cap to court Tuesday, arguing that charging foreign companies for carbon permits violates international agreements. ... more | .. |
 Air Quality Worsened by Paved Surfaces New research focusing on the Houston area suggests that widespread urban development alters weather patterns in a way that can make it easier for pollutants to accumulate during warm summer weather ... more | .. |
 Missing link found in the biology of cloud formation over the oceans Scientists have known for two decades that sulfur compounds that are produced by bacterioplankton as they consume decaying algae in the ocean cycle through two paths. In one, a sulfur compound dimet ... more | .. |
 The Origin of Movement in Oxygen Oases New evidence shows mobile animals could have evolved much earlier than previously thought. A University of Alberta-led research team has discovered that billions of years before life evolved in the ... more |
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