article thumbnail

UMD-led study finds China’s SO2 emissions down 75% since 2007, India’s up 50%; India may now be the top SO2 emitter

Green Car Congress

Although China and India remain the world’s largest consumers of coal, a new University of Maryland-led study found that China’s sulfur dioxide emissions fell by 75% since 2007, while India’s emissions increased by 50%. This work was supported by the NASA Earth Science Division Aura Science Team (Award No.

India 170
article thumbnail

International study finds air pollution leads to millions of hospital visits for asthma attacks worldwide

Green Car Congress

million and 230,000 premature deaths in 2016, respectively. Support for the study was provided by the NASA Health and Air Quality Applied Science Team, NASA Aura ACMAP, the Stockholm Environment Institute Low Emissions Development Pathways Initiative, and the Global Environment Research Fund of the Japan Ministry of the Environment.

Pollution 207
article thumbnail

Revealed: Jupiter’s Secret Power Source

Cars That Think

They used the 10-meter Keck II telescope atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii, one of the five largest in the world, to take spectrographic readings of the planet on two nights: 14 April 2016 and 25 January 2017. Wong/University of California, Berkeley/OPAL/ESA/NASA; Gemini Observatory/AURA/NSF/UC Berkeley; J. Keck Observatory; A.

Power 143