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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Overheard at the North Pole ...	Suzy Becker	27 Jan 2003	Ha.

Topics: Arctic, climate, ozone (all these topics)

Climate Every Mountain		17 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Climate Every Mountain Move over, NASDAQ. Watch out, NYSE. Here comes the Chicago Climate Exchange, the nation's first greenhouse-gas trading program. Announced yesterday by a coalition of corporations and government entities including DuPont, Ford Motor Company, Motorola, and the city of Chicago, the exchange will permit companies to reduce (on paper, at least) their em ...
Topics: business, Chicago, climate, commercial and industry organizations, Illinois, ozone (all these topics)

Journey to the Bottom of the Earth		10 Jan 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: Antarctica, business, environmental non-government organizations, ozone, Washington (all these topics)

Giving Us Tropopause		08 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Giving Us Tropopause The tropopause has risen by an average of 650 feet globally in the last 22 years because of global warming and ozone depletion, according to a study published in the latest issue of the Journal of Geophysical Research. For those of you who've forgotten your junior high school science, the tropopause is the atmospheric layer above the troposphere (which swaddles the Earth) and below the stratosphere (where commercial jets ...
Topics: climate, ozone (all these topics)

Green Unpleasant Land		09 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Green Unpleasant Land A record quantity of northern polar ice was lost this year, according to scientists who presented their findings at a conference of the American Geophysical Union held this weekend in San Francisco. Surface melt in Greenland, for example, was the highest in recorded history, and extended to previously unaffected altitudes. In total, there were about 265,000 square miles of melt on the Greenland ice ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, Greenland, ozone (all these topics)

Atmos-Fear On ground-level ozone	Umbra Fisk	10 Oct 2002	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, Where I live, the air is declared "unhealthful" on many days in the summer due to ground-level ozone pollution. On those days, we have to stay inside until after about 3 p.m. My question is: What causes ground-level ozone to form and what are its reported health effects on adults and children? Dean Bakersfield, Calif. Dearest Dean, Ground-level ozone is the unholy love child of fuel combustion and sunlight, and the ...
Topics: advice, air pollution, Ask Umbra, ozone (all these topics)

Carb(on) Loading		09 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Carb(on) Loading Higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could increase production of crops but reduce their nutritional value, according to scientists at Ohio State University. Peter Curtis, a professor of evolution, ecology, and biology, worked with researchers to analyze the effects of climate change on plant reproduction and collated data from 159 studies conducted over the past two decades. The seed production of ...
Topics: food and agriculture, ozone (all these topics)

Holey Ozone, Batman		01 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Read more about: ozone Holey Ozone, Batman The ozone hole over the South Pole is roughly a third smaller than its average in recent years and it has split in two, according to researchers at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA. Last month, the hole (actually a thinning of the layer of ozone that protects the Earth from ultraviolet rays) measured 6 million square miles. By contrast, for the last six years the hole averaged around 9 million square miles, and in 2001, ...
Topics: ozone (all these topics)

Warm Globally, Don't Warn Locally		16 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Warm Globally, Don't Warn Locally For the first time since 1995, the U.S. EPA's annual report on air pollution trends, released earlier this month, has no section on global warming. The EPA, which deleted the chapter with White House approval, said the decision was made because the agency had released two other reports on global warming earlier in the year and because this particular report was meant to discuss only pollu ...
Topics: climate, ozone, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

I'd Like My C, Under the Sea		10 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
I'd Like My C, Under the Sea A six-year experiment in burying carbon dioxide under the ocean has been highly successful, according to the scientists behind the project. Since 1996, CO2 emitted during methane gas exploration in the North Sea has been pumped back into the ground, where it has been trapped in a giant bubble almost a third of a mile under the floor of the ocean. The CO2 would otherwise have been released into the atmosp ...
Topics: climate, oceans, ozone (all these topics)

Now That Cali Took the T-bird Away		08 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Now That Cali Took the T-bird Away To the extent that somebody in the auto industry could be the darling of environmentalists, that somebody is William Clay Ford, Jr., chair and CEO of Ford Motor Co. Ford, who has earned kudos in the past for his eco-friendly outlook but has more recently drawn barbed comments from greenies, said yesterday that America's love affair with the automobile could be threatened by the i ...
Topics: business, California, ozone, placemaking (all these topics)

Oh, What a Bad Feeling		01 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Oh, What a Bad Feeling Toyota has been getting a lot of kudos recently for its low-emissions hybrid vehicle, the Prius -- but the car company increased its carbon emissions in the U.S. during the 1990s more than any other major automaker in the country, according to a report released this week by Environmental Defense. The group said Toyota increased its CO2 emissions by a whoppin ...
Topics: air pollution, business, cars, electric vehicles, hybrids, ozone, Prius (all these topics)

Michigan Seems Like a Nightmare to Me Now		29 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Michigan Seems Like a Nightmare to Me Now It's about 2,000 miles from Michigan to California -- and about a world away. Linked by market forces (California is the nation's biggest car market, Michigan the nation's biggest car manufacturer) but separated by cultural chasms, the relationship between the two states has always been rocky. Now, in the wake of last week's landmark Golden State legislation to limit car ...
Topics: air pollution, California, Michigan, ozone (all these topics)

Fool Standards		26 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Fool Standards Automakers are gearing up to take California's landmark new vehicle-emissions law to court, even though they could face a public opinion backlash by doing so. Industry reps say they are "very confident" that the courts will agree with their argument that California is encroaching on federal jurisdiction by trying to set its own fuel-economy standards. The law, signed by Gov. Gray Davis (D) on Monda ...
Topics: air pollution, California, ozone (all these topics)

I'll Have to Speak With My Attorney		17 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
I'll Have to Speak With My Attorney In a letter being sent today to President Bush, 11 state attorneys general criticize the president for his failure to impose strong federal measures to limit emissions of greenhouse gases and control global warming. In addition to condemning the "regulatory void" created by the absence of federal action, the letter contends that environmental policies proposed by the Bu ...
Topics: climate, ozone, politics, United States (all these topics)

Unkempt		23 May 2002	Daily Grist
Unkempt We're not sure whose job it is to go through all the thousands of pages of documents related to Vice President Dick Cheney's formerly secretive energy task force, but they sure are having a grand old time. This week, the needle in the haystack was a memo sent to Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham by Jane Hughes Turnbull, an executive at a California renewable energy company. In the memo, Turnbull chalked up he ...
Topics: energy, ozone, politics, United States (all these topics)

Out From the Cold		03 May 2002	Daily Grist
Out From the Cold While average global temperatures are on the way up, Antarctica has cooled overall in the last few decades, a trend that has puzzled scientists. To make matters more baffling, a small peninsula of the continent has simultaneously been warming 10 times faster than the rest of the world. Now scientists are speculating that the region's strange temperature patterns may be tied to the ozone hole, which opens up abo ...
Topics: Antarctica, climate, ozone (all these topics)

Bill of Right Ons!		03 May 2002	Daily Grist
Bill of Right Ons! In a big victory for environmentalists and a blow to the auto industry, the California Senate yesterday handily passed the nation's first bill to limit carbon dioxide emissions from the tailpipes of cars and light trucks. Enviros say the vehicles produce 40 percent of California's greenhouse gas emissions; the bill (in stirring wording) would direct the state Air Resources Board to implement rules to get ...
Topics: air pollution, California, ozone (all these topics)

Mr. Green Genes?		02 May 2002	Daily Grist
Mr. Green Genes? When you've skyrocketed into the public eye, become an overnight billionaire, and successfully mapped the human genome, what do you do next? Why, find the solution to global warming, of course. J. Craig Venter, the maverick scientist who gave the federal government's Human Genome Project a run for its money and accelerated the pace of DNA sequencing by many years, now plans to figure out a way to suck carbon dioxide out of ...
Topics: business, ozone (all these topics)

Middle Earth in the Balance		01 May 2002	Daily Grist
Middle Earth in the Balance Seems like everyone but the U.S. is working on a way to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases that fuel global warming. Yesterday, the New Zealand government proposed levying a tax of about $10 per ton of CO2 to meet the targets of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. The tax would go into effect in 2007 and would help the nation reach its goal of reducing greenhouse gas ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, New Zealand, ozone (all these topics)

Basin Is No Sink		11 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Basin Is No Sink The network of waterways in the Amazon River Basin emits three times as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as previously thought, according to a study appearing in the current edition of Nature. The finding suggests that tropical forest regions are not carbon "sinks" that help cleanse the world of excess CO2 emissions. Rather, the Amazon region produces about 2 trillion pounds of carbon ...
Topics: Amazon, ozone, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

Dirty Duncing		05 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Dirty Duncing The majority of the nation's dirtiest power plants are getting even dirtier, according to a report released yesterday by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group. The report was based on U.S. EPA data on smog, soot, and global warming emissions from power plants from 1995 to 2000. It found that greenhouse gas emissions increased 8 percent, with a total of 175 million tons of carbo ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, ozone, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Low-carbon Riders		31 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Low-carbon Riders In a move that could have radical implications for the automobile industry, the California Assembly passed a bill yesterday that would make it the first state to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from vehicles as a step toward curbing global warming. Because about 10 percent of the nation's new cars are sold in California, legislation affecting emis ...
Topics: air pollution, business, California, climate, ozone, placemaking, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Fire, Fire, Fire, Fire		16 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Fire, Fire, Fire, Fire Fires that rage in thousands of underground coal seams around the world are polluting the air and releasing millions of tons of carbon dioxide, the major greenhouse gas. Although coal fires occur naturally from spontaneous combustion, scientists say the frequency of such fires has risen as mining has exposed coal deposits to mo ...
Topics: air pollution, China, climate, energy, mining and drilling, ozone, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

The Poor Shall Inherit the Worldwatch?		11 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
The Poor Shall Inherit the Worldwatch? By failing to embrace the steps called for at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the world may have helped set the stage for the Sep. 11 terrorist attacks, according to the Worldwatch Institute. In its annual "State of the World" report, the group calls for the world's nations to join the battle to reduce poverty and increase environmental protections at the 10th annivers ...
Topics: health, ozone, United Nations (all these topics)

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