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UCSD Climate Researcher Honored with UN Champions of the Earth Award

Veerabhadran Ramanathan, a distinguished professor of climate and atmospheric sciences at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, whose landmark research showed that cutting emissions of black carbon and other short lived climate pollutants can significantly lessen the impacts of regional and global climate change, improve the health of millions of rural poor, and avoid crop losses, will receive tonight (Sept. 20) a 2013 Champions of the Earth award, the United Nations’s highest environmental accolade.

21 Sep 2013

MWRD’s New Nutrient Recovery System at Stickney Water Reclamation Plant to be built by Black & Veatch and Ostara

The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRD) has selected Black & Veatch and Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies to design and build a new nutrient recovery system at its Stickney Water Reclamation Plant in Cicero, IL.

16 Sep 2013

Advanced Sewage Treatment Effectively Removes Pyrethroid Insecticides

Even though sewage treatment plants are not designed to remove tiny amounts of pesticides, they do an excellent job of dealing with the most widely used family of home and garden insecticides, scientists reported here today.

16 Sep 2013

UC San Diego-Based CAICE Focuses on Creation of Next-Generation Environment Scientists

There are many age-appropriate ways to introduce people to the idea that there are among us infinitesimal tiny particles wafting through the air at any given moment, influencing the environment around us.

10 Sep 2013

Researchers Launch Around 75 Weather Balloons to Study Atmospheric Effect of Aerosols

Professor Jim Sherman enjoys the area’s mesmerizing blue skies as much as anyone else. But it’s the particles known as aerosols found in the atmosphere that intrigue him the most.

4 Sep 2013

GAeF Honors Young Aerosol Researcher with 2013 Smoluchowski Prize

James Allan, now a Senior Research Fellow in SEAES and a member of the National Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, has been awarded the 2013 Smoluchowski Prize by the German Aerosol Society GAeF at the European Aerosol Conference in Prague.

4 Sep 2013

Canada to Participate in Climate and Clean Air Coalition to Reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants

The Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of the Environment, Minister of the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency and Minister for the Arctic Council, will travel to Oslo, Norway from September 2-3 to participate in the high-level assembly of the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) to Reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants.

2 Sep 2013

Each Year 200,000 Early Deaths Occur Due to Air Pollution

Researchers from MIT’s Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment have come out with some sobering new data on air pollution’s impact on Americans’ health.

30 Aug 2013

Heavy Metal Pollution May Not be Affecting Fish Around Southern California Oil Platforms

A recent study by UC Santa Barbara scientists analyzed whole-body fish samples taken from oil-and-gas production platforms and natural sites for heavy metal pollutants. The results showed all but four elements were relatively consistent at both types of location. The findings were published in the Bulletin of Marine Science.

30 Aug 2013

NJIT Expert in Oil Spill Research Appointed to National Research Council

NJIT Professor Michel Boufadel has been appointed a member of a National Research Council (of the National Academies) committee on the Effective Daily Recovery Capacity. The appointment is through Nov. 14, 2013. The task includes providing guidelines on the best techniques for skimming oil off the ocean surface following spills. Such guidelines are important for preparedness of regions regarding oil spills.

28 Aug 2013

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UCSD Climate Researcher Honored with UN Champions of the Earth Award

MWRD’s New Nutrient Recovery System at Stickney Water Reclamation Plant to be built by Black & Veatch and Ostara

Advanced Sewage Treatment Effectively Removes Pyrethroid Insecticides

UC San Diego-Based CAICE Focuses on Creation of Next-Generation Environment Scientists

Researchers Launch Around 75 Weather Balloons to Study Atmospheric Effect of Aerosols

GAeF Honors Young Aerosol Researcher with 2013 Smoluchowski Prize

Canada to Participate in Climate and Clean Air Coalition to Reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants

Each Year 200,000 Early Deaths Occur Due to Air Pollution

Heavy Metal Pollution May Not be Affecting Fish Around Southern California Oil Platforms

NJIT Expert in Oil Spill Research Appointed to National Research Council

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