Atmospheric and economic drivers of global air pollution Date: April 8, 2024 Source: University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences Summary: Carbon monoxide ...

Inversely, air pollution affects climate change because the release of pollutants (i.e. burning fossil fuels) lets chemicals and gas out into the atmosphere, and atmospheric ozone warms the climate.

So ton for ton, it’s a much stronger warming agent than carbon dioxide. It doesn’t last as long in the atmosphere as CO2, but while it’s in the air, it’s a dangerous greenhouse gas.

Aerosols like these make up less than 1 percent of the atmosphere. That’s not a lot, Frost says, but all air quality problems have to do with these trace components.

Methane reacts in the atmosphere to form components of fine particulate air pollution, which can penetrate deep into the lungs and increase risk for heart disease and asthma.

A Dartmouth-led study on ice cores from Alaska and Greenland found that air pollution from the burning of fossil fuels reaches the remote Arctic in amounts large enough to alter its fundamental ...

NASA’s DC-8, P-3 and B-200 aircraft will serve as airborne laboratories for the next three weeks, carrying instruments to measure air pollution gases and aerosols and solar radiation.

Although designed to detect the presence of total ozone in the atmosphere, the device is able to map the abundance of a wide range of other gases as well. ~GOME is a spectrometer which scans the ...

A new study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign looks at global flows of air pollution and how they relate to economic activity in the global supply chain.

A Dartmouth-led study on ice cores from Alaska and Greenland found that air pollution from the burning of fossil fuels reaches the remote Arctic in amounts large enough to alter its fundamental ...