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Taking part in the largest U.S. air quality field project in decades, the National Center for Atmospheric Research is working with partners to study pollution in the Southeast. The study looks at the impact of chemical reactions occurring between human-related pollution and volatile organic compounds emitted from vegetation. Boulder, CO (PRWEB) June 19, 2013 Taking part in the largest U.S. air quality field project in decades, the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) is working...

Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online A new study on cloud formation shows that climate change models may have underestimated the cooling effect of sulfur aerosol particles in the atmosphere. These aerosols mitigate greenhouse gases by reflecting sunlight. They also act as seeds for cloud condensation by allowing humidity to accumulate around them – forming droplets and then clouds. To investigate the role of sulfur aerosols in cloud formation and climate change,...

Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online It has long been understood that plants are able to mitigate the forces of climate change by absorbing carbon dioxide from the air. However, a new study adds another dimension to the role played by plants in curbing global warming by showing that they also emit gases that assist in cloud formation and atmospheric cooling. According to the study, which was recently published in the journal Nature Geoscience, an international...

Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online In 2004, a group of Princeton scientists found trees release the volatile organic compound (VOC) isoprene that reacts in the air to form particulate pollution, or smog. However, the mechanism behind this process wasn't known until a new study from scientists at the University of North Carolina (UNC) was released this week showing how isoprene’s reaction to sunlight leads to the formation of harmful air pollution. After isoprene is...

In an effort to give visitors a better, more convenient user-experience, JustNebulizers.com has added a Live Chat feature. Now visitors can chat with the Just Nebulizers customer service team to get real time answers to their respiratory aid questions. Fulton, MD (PRWEB) April 24, 2013 When one goes to a brick and mortar store and isn’t sure what product best suits their needs, they can ask an employee. Until recently, there wasn’t a great way to do that online. Of course, customers...

redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Fine particles in the air resulting from burning coal or volcanic eruptions can negatively affect coral growth, a team of climate scientists and coral ecologists from the UK, Australia and Panama has discovered. The study, which appears in this week’s edition of the journal Nature Geoscience, found that coral reefs respond to changes in the concentration of atmospheric pollution. Those particulates can shade the corals from...

TSI expands its innovative line of DustTrak(TM) Aerosol Monitors with the introduction of the DustTrak II Model 8530EP and DustTrak DRX Model 8533EP. SHOREVIEW, Minn., March 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- TSI expands its innovative line of DustTrak Aerosol Monitors with the introduction of the DustTrak II Model 8530EP and DustTrak DRX Model 8533EP. The EP models are configured with a robust external pump module that offers the same industry-leading performance of the DustTrak II/DRX...

redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Researchers from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have demonstrated for the first time that dust and other aerosols from one part of the world can influence rainfall in regions thousands of miles away. The study is part of the CalWater field campaign – an initiative funded by the California Energy Commission and designed to help states in the western US...

KAER's technology allows high doses of drugs to be delivered to the lungs directly instead of intravenously MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb. 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Based on its recent analysis of the aerosol drug delivery technology market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes KAER Biotherapeutics with the 2012 North America Frost & Sullivan Award for Technology Innovation for SUPRAER(TM). KAER has developed and patented the SUPRAER(TM) technology, which is a new platform for...

April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online A new study from Columbia Engineering and the Georgia Institute of Technology shows – for the first time – certain volatile organic gases can promote cloud formation in ways atmospheric scientists have never before considered. The findings of this study were published online in the Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). "This is the first time gases have been shown to affect cloud...