Environment Ozone Washington 
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 22, 2010
Nitrous oxide is a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change and stratospheric ozone destruction. Human activities, including fossil fuel combustion and intensive agriculture, have increased the availability of nitrogen in the environment. Beaulieu et al.
Cars That Think
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Take, for example, the tens of thousands of fossil-fueled ships that chug across the ocean, spewing plumes of pollutants that contribute to acid rain, ozone depletion, respiratory ailments, and global warming. As we confront the enormous challenge of climate change, we should take inspiration from even the most unlikely sources.
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Cars That Think
DECEMBER 16, 2022
And so back in, I believe it was the 80s, it might have been earlier than that, Paul Knutson who famously identified the ozone whole problem, he put forward the idea that putting material in the stratosphere might be an interesting way to reflect sunlight to cool the planet. And that was based on observations of volcanoes. Wanser: Yes.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 20, 2009
Neutral richii @ Apr 19th 2009 5:28PM @ everyone, I can see what your trying to say, that without gas powered vehicles that a much larger strain will be put on electrical facilities that also contribute to air pollution and degrade our environment. but its never even been close to the amount of garbage that gas power vehicles produce.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 28, 2018
Air pollution—specifically PM 2.5 , ozone and NO 2 —could be to blame for up to 33 million emergency asthma attack visits to hospital a year, according to a new open-access study published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives. 37% and 73% of ozone and PM 2.5 37% and 73% of ozone and PM 2.5
Green Car Congress
JUNE 27, 2011
This summer two NASA research airplanes will fly over the Baltimore-Washington region and northeast Maryland as part of a mission to enhance the capability of satellites to measure ground-level air quality from space. Ground sites maintained by the Maryland Department of the Environment form the backbone of the surface network.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 4, 2013
A new report prepared by the World Bank at the request of the G8 identifies ways that the World Bank can do more through its projects to reduce the emission of short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs): black carbon, methane, tropospheric ozone, and fluorinated gases known as HFCs. Washington DC ; World Bank. —Akbar et al.
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