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NASA Satellite Finds Unreported Sources Of Toxic Air Pollution

2016-06-06 04:23:38| pollutiononline News Articles

Using a new satellite-based method, scientists at NASA, Environment and Climate Change Canada, and two universities have located 39 unreported and major human-made sources of toxic sulfur dioxide emissions

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39 new sources manmade sulfur dioxide pollution discovered by NASA

2016-06-05 16:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

World Tech: Sulfur dioxide, or SO2, is responsible for producing acid rain and is considered a serious health threat NASA scientists have just reviewed data from the satellite Aura, collected from 2005 to 2014, and identified 39 new major sources of sulfur dioxide toxic emissions. The new study, conducted by NASA, the University of Maryland, Dalhousie University and Climate Change in Canada, found that the previously unreported pollution locations are concentrated around power plants and coal plants in Mexico,...

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NASA finds 39 unreported sources of pollution

2016-06-04 12:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Hindu: Using a new satellite-based method, NASA scientists have located 39 unreported and major human-made sources of toxic sulphur dioxide emissions. The unreported emission sources, found in the analysis of satellite data from 2005 to 2014, are clusters of coal-burning power plants, smelters, oil and gas operations found notably in West Asia, but also in Mexico and parts of Russia. In addition, reported emissions from known sources in these regions were, in some cases, two to three times lower than...

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