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Study connects diabetes, air pollution to interstitial lung disease

December 9, 2020 sarah Jonas Air Pollutants, Air Quality, Climate Change, Insulin, Lung Disease, Lungs, Ozone, Pollution

A new study published in the Environmental Health Perspectives connects insulin resistance and repetitive ozone exposure to the development of interstitial lung disease.

Announcement

Four Rutgers Professors Named AAAS Fellows

November 24, 2020 sarah Jonas Aaas, Aerosols, American Association For The Advancement Of Science, BIOCHEMISTRY, Biology, Cancer, Computers, Computing, Data Analysis, GIs, Health, Indoor Air Pollution, Indoor Air Quality, Medicine, Mobile Computing, Molecular Biology, Occupational Health, Organs, Ozone, Pollutants, Pollution, Public Health, RBHS, Research, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, Rutgers University, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Rutgers-New Brunswick, Science, Technology

Four Rutgers professors have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), an honor given to AAAS members by their peers. They join 485 other new AAAS fellows as a result of their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications. A virtual induction ceremony is scheduled for Feb. 13, 2021.

Research Results

Study: Clean Air Act Saved 1.5 Billion Birds

November 24, 2020 sarah Jonas Birds, Clean Air Act, Cornell, Ornithology, Ozone, Pollution

U.S. pollution regulations meant to protect humans from dirty air are also saving birds. So concludes a new continentwide study published today in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Study authors found that improved air quality under a federal program to reduce ozone pollution may have averted the loss of 1.5 billion birds during the past 40 years.

Research Results

School absences correlate to impaired air quality

October 9, 2020 sarah Jonas Air Quality, elementary age, Ozone, Particulate Matter, Particulate Pollution, Salt Lake City, School Absences

In Salt Lake City schools, absences rise when the air quality worsens, and it’s not just in times of high pollution or “red” air quality days—even days following lower levels of pollutions saw increased absences.

Research Results

Hubble Uses Earth as a Proxy for Identifying Oxygen on Potentially Habitable Planets Around Other Stars

August 6, 2020 sarah Jonas Hubble Space Telescope, moon, NASA, Oxygen, Ozone, Solar system, Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS)

Astronomers used Hubble during a total lunar eclipse to detect ozone in our planet’s atmosphere by looking at Earthlight reflected off the Moon in ultraviolet wavelengths. This method serves as a proxy for how astronomers will observe Earth-like exoplanets in search of life.

Research Results

Ozone Disinfection Could Allow Safe Reuse of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

July 8, 2020 sarah Jonas COVID-19, Disinfectant, Disinfection, Ozone, personal protective equipment, PPE

A new study shows that ozone gas, a highly reactive chemical composed of three oxygen atoms, could provide a safe means for disinfecting certain types of personal protective equipment that are in high demand for shielding health care personnel from Covid-19.

Research Results

Is the air getting cleaner during the COVID-19 pandemic?

June 17, 2020 sarah Jonas Air Pollution, Air Quality, COVID-19, NO2, Ozone, Pm2.5, stay-at-home order, Traffic

Using air quality data from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency monitors across the U.S., a UW-led team looked for changes in two common pollutants over the course of 2020.

Policy

EPA Proposal to Change How It Evaluates Environmental Policy Ignores Science

June 5, 2020 sarah Jonas Air Pollution, Environment and Health, EPA, Ozone

The American Thoracic Society is extremely concerned with today’s announcement about changes in how the EPA evaluates the costs and benefits of environmental policy. While the details of economic analysis of environmental regulations are complex, the guiding principle is remarkably simple: compare all the costs and benefits of agency actions. The proposed changes in how costs and benefits are evaluated will sufficiently degrade the credibility of economic analysis conducted at the EPA to the point that it is no longer able to function as an objective policy analysis tool.

Feature

New mechanism links ozone and disease resistance

May 8, 2020 sarah Jonas Criegee, Ozone, Ozone Exposure

Scientists have identified a new mechanism for the breakdown of the building blocks of cell membranes. The mechanism is based on autoxidation from the interaction of oxygen and hydroxyl free radicals and the subsequent chain reaction between hydroxyl radicals and the Criegee intermediates that form from atmospheric ozone.

Announcement

HARC Research Analyzes Effects of COVID-19 on Air Quality

April 29, 2020 sarah Jonas Air Quality, covid 19, Environment, Harris County, Houston, NOX, Ozone, Texas

HARC (Houston Advanced Research Center) announces research analysis to study effects of COVID-19, associated stay-at-home orders, and the subsequent effects on air quality. Specifically, the changes in air quality measuring nitrogen oxides (NOx); benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylene (BTEX); and ground-level ozone (O3).

Research Results

Scientists Discover New Clue Behind Age-Related Diseases and Food Spoilage

February 26, 2020 sarah Jonas Advanced Light Source, Age-related Diseases, aging adults, Alzheimer's Disease, ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY, Avocado, BIOCHEMISTRY, Cancer, Chronic Diseases, Dementia, Department of Energy (DOE), Department of Energy Office of Science, food science and nutrition, Fuels, Hydroxyl, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lipids, Mass Spectrometry, meat, Neurodegenative Disease, Organic Chemistry, Oxidation, Oxygen, Ozone, Parkinson's Disease, Plastic, Pollution, Synchrotron Science, ultraviolet light

Berkeley Lab scientists have made a surprising discovery that could help explain our risk for developing chronic diseases or cancers as we get older, and how our food decomposes over time.

Research Results

FSU Research: Despite less ozone pollution, not all plants benefit

January 22, 2020 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Ozone

Policies and new technologies have reduced emissions of precursor gases that lead to ozone air pollution, but despite those improvements, the amount of ozone that plants are taking in has not followed the same trend, according to Florida State University researchers.

Research Results

Exposure to Ozone Pollution or Wood Smoke Worsens Lung Health of Smokers and Former Smokers

December 23, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Ozone, Pollution

Over many years, exposure to the levels of ozone and other forms of pollution found in most U.S. cities and some rural communities can take a toll on a person’s health. Two studies led by Johns Hopkins researchers describe the impact of pollution on lung disease, particularly chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), in the U.S.

Feature Expert

U.S. Carbon and Pollution Emissions Policies are ‘Up in the Air’

October 25, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Emissions, Energy Policy, Ozone, Trump Administration

Tangles in courts and in Congress threaten emissions-related energy regulations and incentives. If these are lost, carbon emissions are projected to climb, and the fight against health-damaging ozone may lose traction, allowing it to resurge, too. An expert explains the legal messes.

Research Results

Energy Regulation Rollbacks Threaten Progress Against Harmful Ozone

October 25, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Affordable Clean Energy, Air Quality, Air Quality and Health, Attainment, CAFE standards, Carbon Dioxide, carbon dioxide (CO2), carbon dioxide effects, Carbon Emissions, Clean Air Act, Clean Power Plan, Climate Change, Coal fired power plants, Corporate Average Fuel Economy, Executive Order, Forecast, global warming, Global Warming And The Environment, Global Warming Climate Change, Global Warming Concerns, nitrogen oxides, NOX, Noxious, Obama Administration, Ozone, ozone attainment, Ozone Exposure, Ozone Levels, Regulations, Trump Administration

The fight against harmful ozone is under legal threat. Air quality and carbon emissions regulations are currently in limbo in courts and congress, from core legislation from the 1970s to rules from the last U.S. administration. This study models the future losses in the fight to drive down respiratory-damaging, ground-level ozone if the regulations go away.