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Human-generated Ozone Will Damage Crops, Reduce Production

November 2, 2007 – 2:23 pm

ScienceDaily (Oct. 29, 2007) — A novel MIT study concludes that increasing levels of ozone due to the growing use of fossil fuels will damage global vegetation, resulting in serious costs to the world’s economy.
The analysis, reported in the November issue of Energy Policy, focused on how three environmental changes (increases in temperature, carbon dioxide [...]

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R.I.P TOMS: NASA OZONE INSTRUMENT LAID TO REST AFTER THREE DECADES

August 20, 2007 – 4:31 am

August 15, 2007
NASA
During its almost 30-year lifespan, the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) program provided unique and valuable information that shaped public policy and international perspectives on the environment. The instrument was important because its data established the geographical extent of the “ozone hole” over the Antarctic, and monitored its year-to-year evolution.
With the recent decommissioning [...]

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Ozone Hinders Plants’ Ability to Absorb Carbon Dioxide

August 11, 2007 – 7:46 am

TreeHugger
Ozone — best known for filtering out harmful UV light as a component of the Earth’s stratosphere — could dramatically reduce plants’ ability to act as a carbon sink and thus cause further accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, according to a new study published in Nature. In addition to damaging human tissues (particularly [...]

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