Sentences with phrase «study of acid rain»

Bishop's work built on an earlier study of acid rain impacts on sugar maple forests in the Adirondacks.

Not exact matches

A new study shows streams and rivers up and down the East Coast are threatened by a legacy of acid rain and the impact of human activities.

Dr. Gene Likens, co-discoverer of acid rain in North America some 50 years ago, says the study is the first of its kind.

But although scientists have studied the impacts of forest fires and acid rain, no one's looked closely at the impacts of ice storms.

The study authors suggest that this is most likely due to increased emissions of acid rain precursors and, consequently, some increased scrubbing of ammonia from the atmosphere.

David began his career in the 1980s studying the effects of acid rain — a main ingredient of which is sulfur.

Less than a third of the scientists in the laboratory's group studying the deposition of acid rain have agreed to move to Culham.

Similarly, researchers have traced nitric oxide rising from Kentucky and Tennessee and drifting toward the Great Smoky Mountains, where researchers have observed some of the worst acid rain and forest decline, says William H. Schlesinger, president of the Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, N.Y.

A new study suggests that acid rain from pollutants from burning coal can slowly but inexorably weaken certain layers of rock underlying mountain slopes to the point of failure.

The study was set across a range of soil degradation caused by acid rain, which is a major stressor for sugar maple and a chronic issue in the Adirondacks.

He saw another version of that gap when his undergraduate work led him to teach 3rd graders in the state's capital, Trenton, about acid rain, and to study in Capetown, South...

I have a sort of mental chart with lots of arrows: actions that produce GHGs (e.g., coal - burning) causing a plethora of problems (& goods — like power), acid rain, ocean acidification, local ground, air, water pollution, GW, health problems & dangers for miners, military threats / expenses (according to Pentagon studies re oil), etc.; and also many arrows of good (some bad) coming out of measures to abate GW.

Remarkably, the same individuals surface repeatedly - some of the same figures who have claimed that the science of global warming is «not settled» denied the truth of studies linking smoking to lung cancer, coal smoke to acid rain, and CFCs to the ozone hole.

On a broader scale, people concerned about the environment applied increasingly sophisticated scientific tools to study the impacts of deforestation, acid rain, and many other large - scale activities.

Drawing on case studies of past environmental debates such as those over acid rain and ozone depletion, science policy experts Roger Pielke Jr. and Daniel Sarewitz argue that once next generation technologies are available that make meaningful action on climate change lower - cost, then much of the argument politically over scientific uncertainty is likely to diminish.26 Similarly, research by Yale University's Dan Kahan and colleagues suggest that building political consensus on climate change will depend heavily on advocates for action calling attention to a diverse mix of options, with some actions such as tax incentives for nuclear energy, government support for clean energy research, or actions to protect cities and communities against climate risks, more likely to gain support from both Democrats and Republicans.

As a result, the law costs utilities just $ 3 billion annually, not $ 25 billion, according to a recent study in the Journal of Environmental Management; by cutting acid rain in half, it also generates an estimated $ 122 billion a year in benefits from avoided death and illness, healthier lakes and forests, and improved visibility on the Eastern Seaboard.

Power plant emissions that cause acid rain, water pollution and destruction of the ozone layer may actually be made worse by capturing the CO2 and pumping it deep underground, a new study reported online and in an upcoming International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control suggests.

Our scientists have produced landmark studies on the dangers of DDT, tobacco smoke, acid rain, and global warming.

Some environmental engineers study ways to minimize the effects of acid rain, global warming, automobile emissions, and ozone depletion.