Daily non-political popular news in brief.
Aerosol pollution slows down winds and reduces rainfall
01-22-2007 · EurekAlert!Near-surface winds provide a renewable source of clean energy and evaporate water, helping rain clouds to build up. But aerosolized particles created from vehicle exhaust and other contaminants can accumulate in the atmosphere and reduce the speed of winds closer to the Earth's surface, which results in less wind power available for wind-turbine electricity and also in reduced precipitation, according to a study by Stanford and NASA researchers.
Read more »
Keywords: aerosol, pollution, slows, down, winds, rainfall, slow, wind
« Previous | Next »
Similar news on "Aerosol pollution slows down winds and reduces rainfall":
- Paracetamol, one of most used analgesics, could slow down bone growth
09-03-2007 · EurekAlert!
UGR scientists stress the need for controlling the use of paracetamol, as it has been proved "in vitro" that it slows down bone regeneration. Their work has demonstrated that applying plasma rich in growth factors, from the patients themselves and applied on the bones, accelerates cell growth. Therefore, it could also be used to regenerate wounds or ulcers when applied over soft tissue. Results of this research have been published in prestigious journals such as Bioscience Reports, Oral Diseases and Physiology and Biochemistry among others.
Similar news · Read more »
- Computer simulation predicts Voyager 2 will reach major milestone in space in late 2007-early 2008
11-27-2007 · EurekAlert!
Using a computer model simulation, Haruichi Washimi, a physicist at the University of California, Riverside, has predicted that the interplanetary spacecraft Voyager 2 will cross the "termination shock" -- a spherical shell around the solar system that marks where the solar wind slows down to subsonic speed -- in late 2007-early 2008.
Similar news · Read more »
- It's enough to turn your neighbors green
12-14-2006 · EurekAlert!
Developed countries' motivation to invest in greenhouse gas emission-reduction projects in developing countries is based on their desire to reduce air pollution they receive from abroad and keep transaction costs down, rather than to achieve global-scale pollution reductions. This analysis1 by Nives Dolsak and Maureen Dunn, from the University of Washington-Bothell, in the US, has been published in Springer's journal Policy Sciences.
Similar news · Read more »
- VBI research offers potential route to diabetes therapeutics
01-22-2007 · EurekAlert!
Work at Virginia Bioinformatics Institute is providing important information for researchers designing drugs for type 2 diabetics by helping researchers to identify potential targets for docking inhibitors that will slow down, but not fully eliminate, the body's overproduction of glucose.
Similar news · Read more »
- Groundbreaking Canada-US study proves link between emissions and mercury pollution in fish
09-17-2007 · EurekAlert!
A Canada-US study to appear in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences proves mercury emissions will end up in fish in as little as three years. It concluded if mercury emissions from industry were cut now, the amount showing up in fish would begin to go down within a decade. Co-author Vincent St. Louis of the University of Alberta says this adds important science to the political debate over emission reductions.
Similar news · Read more »
- Meeting the ethanol challenge: Scientists use supercomputer to target cellulose bottleneck
04-24-2007 · EurekAlert!
Termites and fungi already know how to digest cellulose, but the human process of producing ethanol from cellulose remains slow and expensive. The central bottleneck is the sluggish rate at which the cellulose enzyme complex breaks down tightly bound cellulose into sugars, which are then fermented into ethanol.
Similar news · Read more »
- Heavy metal slips down UK air quality charts
01-14-2008 · EurekAlert!
Twenty-five years of pollution monitoring shows a fall in the presence of toxins in ambient air.
Similar news · Read more »
- Learning slows physical progression of Alzheimer's disease
01-23-2007 · EurekAlert!
Learning appears to slow the development of two brain lesions that are the hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease, scientists at UC Irvine have discovered. The finding suggests that the elderly, by keeping their minds active, can help delay the onset of this degenerative disease.
Similar news · Read more »
- Global 'sunscreen' has likely thinned, report NASA scientists
03-15-2007 · EurekAlert!
A new NASA study has found that an important counter-balance to the warming of our planet by greenhouse gases -- sunlight blocked by dust, pollution and other aerosol particles -- appears to have lost ground.
Similar news · Read more »
- Vegetables, not fruit, help fight memory problems in old age
10-23-2006 · EurekAlert!
Eating vegetables, not fruit, helps slow down the rate of cognitive change in older adults, according to a study published in the Oct. 24, 2006, issue of Neurology, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
Similar news · Read more »
