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US Fires Release Large Amounts Of Carbon Dioxide

ScienceDaily (Nov. 1, 2007) — Large-scale fires in a western or southeastern state can pump as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in a few weeks as the state’s entire motor vehicle traffic does in a year, according to newly published research by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the University of […]

CALIPSO’s First Images Offer New Dimension to Air Quality and Climate Research

NASA
07.24.06
The CALIPSO spacecraft collected its first data recently, a major milestone for one of NASA’s newest satellite missions. CALIPSO, or Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations, seeks to reveal the secrets of clouds and aerosols, tiny particles suspended in the air, enabling scientists to study how they form, evolve and interact and how they […]

Groups Defend San Joaquin Air District’s “Indirect Source” Rule

EarthJustice
Every sector must work to clean Valley air — No free ride for developers
August 8, 2007
Fresno, CA — Environmental groups have filed intervention papers in federal court to help the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District defend a rule requiring developers to mitigate the air pollution associated with new housing projects and other large […]