Sentences with phrase «of atmospheric pollution»

By trapping heat, rising concentrations of atmospheric pollution are causing glaciers and ice sheets to melt into seas, lifting high tides ever higher.

By trapping heat, rising concentrations of atmospheric pollution are causing glaciers and ice sheets to melt into seas, lifting high tides ever higher.

Following this approach, known as chemical data assimilation, the health and environmental effects of atmospheric pollution can be assessed with increased accuracy.

The lagoon is at an altitude of 3,020 m. and has recently registered the evolution of atmospheric pollution from Neolithic times up to the present day and which, therefore, offer trails of the activities carried out by each of the peoples that have inhabited southern Spain: Phoenicians, Romans, Visigoths, Moslems, etc..

India, another huge source of atmospheric pollution, recently allowed European scientists to measure its high - level aerosols, an experiment that also includes flights into Nepal and Bangladesh.

The identification of other, sometimes more powerful, greenhouse gases such as methane, the contributions to atmospheric carbon dioxide from other human activities such as deforestation and cement manufacture, better understanding of the temperature - changing properties of atmospheric pollution such as sulphur emissions, aerosols and their importance in the post-1940s northern hemisphere cooling: the knowledge - base was increasing year by year.

The identification of other, sometimes more powerful, greenhouse gases such as methane, the contributions to atmospheric carbon dioxide from other human activities such as deforestation and cement manufacture, better understanding of the temperature - changing properties of atmospheric pollution such as sulphur emissions, aerosols and their importance in the post-1940s northern hemisphere cooling: the knowledge - base was increasing year by year.

Lichens are commonly used to monitor ecosystem health and the impact of atmospheric pollution.

Now he's doing something similar up in Canada's Far North, «the final resting place of atmospheric pollution,» said Hayes, a New Yorker from Albany who has lived in Montreal since 2013.

A team of scientists find in the Laguna de Rio Seco lagoon, at an altitude of 3,020 m., evidence of atmospheric pollution caused by lead and linked to metallurgical activities from 3,900 years ago (Early Bronze Age).

From the geochemical analyses carried out on the sediments deposited during the past 10,000 years in the Laguna de Rio Seco lagoon, a remote alpine lake in Sierra Nevada, at 3,020 m. above sea level, evidence has been found of atmospheric pollution from lead.

Other types of atmospheric pollution can interfere with astronomic observations as well.

The vast majority of greenhouse gases (GHGs) exhibit relatively long atmospheric residence times, some upwards of a hundred years, creating a lag time between the release of atmospheric pollution and realization of the actual side - effects.

We are in a dire situation in terms of climate change and the rate of increase of atmospheric pollution and I would expect the people in positions of power to be showing leadership in the battle to save our environment.

The Atmospheric Science Group at Manchester works in the areas of the microphysics of clouds and aerosol, heterogeneous atmospheric chemistry, radiative transfer, the deposition, conversion and transport of atmospheric pollution, thunderstorm electrification, atmospheric dynamics and remote sensing.

It was only this year, for example, that a major and well - publicised (albeit for the wrong reasons) study found that components of atmospheric pollution are responsible for up to 60 % as much warming compared to CO2.

While Fenton said that a lack of political leadership did not matter so much as civic institutions take charge, Boyle voiced the fears of many young Canadians who face a potentially grim future of atmospheric pollution, extreme weather, and the threat of rising sea levels caused by greenhouse gas emissions.

Following this approach, known as chemical data assimilation, the health and environmental effects of atmospheric pollution can be assessed with increased accuracy.

This one will establish whether it can put a dent in the country's fastest - growing — and widely vilified — source of atmospheric pollution.

This result hints at how much the effects of atmospheric pollution had been underestimated.»