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  1. Researchers issue warning after discovering overlooked factor that could increase risk for ALS: ‘Potentially related’

    Research has revealed a link between the mining and burning of dirty fuels and the development of amyotrophic…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Health #Airpollution #amyotrophiclateralsclerosis #environmentalpollutants #environmentalresearch #sulfurdioxide
    newsbeep.com/us/266893/

  2. Researchers issue warning after discovering overlooked factor that could increase risk for ALS: ‘Potentially related’

    Research has revealed a link between the mining and burning of dirty fuels and the development of amyotrophic…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Health #Airpollution #amyotrophiclateralsclerosis #environmentalpollutants #environmentalresearch #sulfurdioxide
    newsbeep.com/us/266893/

  3. #PlasticRain Is the New #AcidRain

    Plastic rain could prove to be a more insidious problem than acid rain.

    by Matt Simon
    June 12, 2020

    "Hoof it through the national parks of the western United States—Joshua Tree, the #GrandCanyon, Bryce Canyon—and breathe deep the pristine air. These are unspoiled lands, collectively a great American conservation story. Yet an invisible menace is actually blowing through the air and falling via raindrops: #Microplastic particles, tiny chunks (by definition, less than 5 millimeters long) of fragmented plastic bottles and microfibers that fray from clothes, all #pollutants that get caught up in Earth’s atmospheric systems and deposited in the #wilderness.

    "Writing in the journal Science, researchers report a startling discovery: After collecting #rainwater and air samples for 14 months, they calculated that over 1,000 metric tons of microplastic particles fall into 11 protected areas in the western US each year. That’s the equivalent of over 120 million plastic water bottles.

    "'We just did that for the area of protected areas in the West, which is only 6 percent of the total US area,' says lead author Janice Brahney, an environmental scientist at Utah State University. 'The number was just so large, it's shocking.'

    "It further confirms an increasingly hellish scenario: Microplastics are blowing all over the world, landing in supposedly pure habitats, like the #Arctic and the remote #FrenchPyrenees. They’re flowing into the #oceans via #wastewater and tainting #deepsea #ecosystems, and they’re even ejecting out of the water and blowing onto land in sea breezes. And now in the American West, and presumably across the rest of the world given that these are fundamental atmospheric processes, they are falling in the form of plastic rain—the new acid rain.

    "Plastic rain could prove to be a more insidious problem than acid rain, which is a consequence of #SulfurDioxide and #NitrogenOxide emissions. By deploying #scrubbers in power plants to control the former, and catalytic converters in cars to control the latter, the US and other countries have over the last several decades cut down on the #acidification problem. But microplastic has already corrupted even the most #RemoteEnvironments, and there’s no way to scrub water or land or air of the particles—the stuff is absolutely everywhere, and it’s not like there’s a plastic magnet we can drag through the oceans. What makes plastic so useful—its hardiness—is what also makes it an alarming pollutant: Plastic never really goes away, instead breaking into ever smaller bits that infiltrate ever smaller corners of the planet. Even worse, plastic waste is expected to skyrocket from 260 million tons a year to 460 million tons by 2030, according to the consultancy McKinsey. More people joining the middle class in #EconomicallyDeveloping countries means more #consumerism and more #PlasticPackaging. "

    Read more:
    getpocket.com/explore/item/pla

    #Crapitalism #BanPlastics #WaterIsLife #OceansAreLife

  4. #PlasticRain Is the New #AcidRain

    Plastic rain could prove to be a more insidious problem than acid rain.

    by Matt Simon
    June 12, 2020

    "Hoof it through the national parks of the western United States—Joshua Tree, the #GrandCanyon, Bryce Canyon—and breathe deep the pristine air. These are unspoiled lands, collectively a great American conservation story. Yet an invisible menace is actually blowing through the air and falling via raindrops: #Microplastic particles, tiny chunks (by definition, less than 5 millimeters long) of fragmented plastic bottles and microfibers that fray from clothes, all #pollutants that get caught up in Earth’s atmospheric systems and deposited in the #wilderness.

    "Writing in the journal Science, researchers report a startling discovery: After collecting #rainwater and air samples for 14 months, they calculated that over 1,000 metric tons of microplastic particles fall into 11 protected areas in the western US each year. That’s the equivalent of over 120 million plastic water bottles.

    "'We just did that for the area of protected areas in the West, which is only 6 percent of the total US area,' says lead author Janice Brahney, an environmental scientist at Utah State University. 'The number was just so large, it's shocking.'

    "It further confirms an increasingly hellish scenario: Microplastics are blowing all over the world, landing in supposedly pure habitats, like the #Arctic and the remote #FrenchPyrenees. They’re flowing into the #oceans via #wastewater and tainting #deepsea #ecosystems, and they’re even ejecting out of the water and blowing onto land in sea breezes. And now in the American West, and presumably across the rest of the world given that these are fundamental atmospheric processes, they are falling in the form of plastic rain—the new acid rain.

    "Plastic rain could prove to be a more insidious problem than acid rain, which is a consequence of #SulfurDioxide and #NitrogenOxide emissions. By deploying #scrubbers in power plants to control the former, and catalytic converters in cars to control the latter, the US and other countries have over the last several decades cut down on the #acidification problem. But microplastic has already corrupted even the most #RemoteEnvironments, and there’s no way to scrub water or land or air of the particles—the stuff is absolutely everywhere, and it’s not like there’s a plastic magnet we can drag through the oceans. What makes plastic so useful—its hardiness—is what also makes it an alarming pollutant: Plastic never really goes away, instead breaking into ever smaller bits that infiltrate ever smaller corners of the planet. Even worse, plastic waste is expected to skyrocket from 260 million tons a year to 460 million tons by 2030, according to the consultancy McKinsey. More people joining the middle class in #EconomicallyDeveloping countries means more #consumerism and more #PlasticPackaging. "

    Read more:
    getpocket.com/explore/item/pla

    #Crapitalism #BanPlastics #WaterIsLife #OceansAreLife

  5. #PlasticRain Is the New #AcidRain

    Plastic rain could prove to be a more insidious problem than acid rain.

    by Matt Simon
    June 12, 2020

    "Hoof it through the national parks of the western United States—Joshua Tree, the #GrandCanyon, Bryce Canyon—and breathe deep the pristine air. These are unspoiled lands, collectively a great American conservation story. Yet an invisible menace is actually blowing through the air and falling via raindrops: #Microplastic particles, tiny chunks (by definition, less than 5 millimeters long) of fragmented plastic bottles and microfibers that fray from clothes, all #pollutants that get caught up in Earth’s atmospheric systems and deposited in the #wilderness.

    "Writing in the journal Science, researchers report a startling discovery: After collecting #rainwater and air samples for 14 months, they calculated that over 1,000 metric tons of microplastic particles fall into 11 protected areas in the western US each year. That’s the equivalent of over 120 million plastic water bottles.

    "'We just did that for the area of protected areas in the West, which is only 6 percent of the total US area,' says lead author Janice Brahney, an environmental scientist at Utah State University. 'The number was just so large, it's shocking.'

    "It further confirms an increasingly hellish scenario: Microplastics are blowing all over the world, landing in supposedly pure habitats, like the #Arctic and the remote #FrenchPyrenees. They’re flowing into the #oceans via #wastewater and tainting #deepsea #ecosystems, and they’re even ejecting out of the water and blowing onto land in sea breezes. And now in the American West, and presumably across the rest of the world given that these are fundamental atmospheric processes, they are falling in the form of plastic rain—the new acid rain.

    "Plastic rain could prove to be a more insidious problem than acid rain, which is a consequence of #SulfurDioxide and #NitrogenOxide emissions. By deploying #scrubbers in power plants to control the former, and catalytic converters in cars to control the latter, the US and other countries have over the last several decades cut down on the #acidification problem. But microplastic has already corrupted even the most #RemoteEnvironments, and there’s no way to scrub water or land or air of the particles—the stuff is absolutely everywhere, and it’s not like there’s a plastic magnet we can drag through the oceans. What makes plastic so useful—its hardiness—is what also makes it an alarming pollutant: Plastic never really goes away, instead breaking into ever smaller bits that infiltrate ever smaller corners of the planet. Even worse, plastic waste is expected to skyrocket from 260 million tons a year to 460 million tons by 2030, according to the consultancy McKinsey. More people joining the middle class in #EconomicallyDeveloping countries means more #consumerism and more #PlasticPackaging. "

    Read more:
    getpocket.com/explore/item/pla

    #Crapitalism #BanPlastics #WaterIsLife #OceansAreLife

  6. #PlasticRain Is the New #AcidRain

    Plastic rain could prove to be a more insidious problem than acid rain.

    by Matt Simon
    June 12, 2020

    "Hoof it through the national parks of the western United States—Joshua Tree, the #GrandCanyon, Bryce Canyon—and breathe deep the pristine air. These are unspoiled lands, collectively a great American conservation story. Yet an invisible menace is actually blowing through the air and falling via raindrops: #Microplastic particles, tiny chunks (by definition, less than 5 millimeters long) of fragmented plastic bottles and microfibers that fray from clothes, all #pollutants that get caught up in Earth’s atmospheric systems and deposited in the #wilderness.

    "Writing in the journal Science, researchers report a startling discovery: After collecting #rainwater and air samples for 14 months, they calculated that over 1,000 metric tons of microplastic particles fall into 11 protected areas in the western US each year. That’s the equivalent of over 120 million plastic water bottles.

    "'We just did that for the area of protected areas in the West, which is only 6 percent of the total US area,' says lead author Janice Brahney, an environmental scientist at Utah State University. 'The number was just so large, it's shocking.'

    "It further confirms an increasingly hellish scenario: Microplastics are blowing all over the world, landing in supposedly pure habitats, like the #Arctic and the remote #FrenchPyrenees. They’re flowing into the #oceans via #wastewater and tainting #deepsea #ecosystems, and they’re even ejecting out of the water and blowing onto land in sea breezes. And now in the American West, and presumably across the rest of the world given that these are fundamental atmospheric processes, they are falling in the form of plastic rain—the new acid rain.

    "Plastic rain could prove to be a more insidious problem than acid rain, which is a consequence of #SulfurDioxide and #NitrogenOxide emissions. By deploying #scrubbers in power plants to control the former, and catalytic converters in cars to control the latter, the US and other countries have over the last several decades cut down on the #acidification problem. But microplastic has already corrupted even the most #RemoteEnvironments, and there’s no way to scrub water or land or air of the particles—the stuff is absolutely everywhere, and it’s not like there’s a plastic magnet we can drag through the oceans. What makes plastic so useful—its hardiness—is what also makes it an alarming pollutant: Plastic never really goes away, instead breaking into ever smaller bits that infiltrate ever smaller corners of the planet. Even worse, plastic waste is expected to skyrocket from 260 million tons a year to 460 million tons by 2030, according to the consultancy McKinsey. More people joining the middle class in #EconomicallyDeveloping countries means more #consumerism and more #PlasticPackaging. "

    Read more:
    getpocket.com/explore/item/pla

    #Crapitalism #BanPlastics #WaterIsLife #OceansAreLife

  7. #PlasticRain Is the New #AcidRain

    Plastic rain could prove to be a more insidious problem than acid rain.

    by Matt Simon
    June 12, 2020

    "Hoof it through the national parks of the western United States—Joshua Tree, the #GrandCanyon, Bryce Canyon—and breathe deep the pristine air. These are unspoiled lands, collectively a great American conservation story. Yet an invisible menace is actually blowing through the air and falling via raindrops: #Microplastic particles, tiny chunks (by definition, less than 5 millimeters long) of fragmented plastic bottles and microfibers that fray from clothes, all #pollutants that get caught up in Earth’s atmospheric systems and deposited in the #wilderness.

    "Writing in the journal Science, researchers report a startling discovery: After collecting #rainwater and air samples for 14 months, they calculated that over 1,000 metric tons of microplastic particles fall into 11 protected areas in the western US each year. That’s the equivalent of over 120 million plastic water bottles.

    "'We just did that for the area of protected areas in the West, which is only 6 percent of the total US area,' says lead author Janice Brahney, an environmental scientist at Utah State University. 'The number was just so large, it's shocking.'

    "It further confirms an increasingly hellish scenario: Microplastics are blowing all over the world, landing in supposedly pure habitats, like the #Arctic and the remote #FrenchPyrenees. They’re flowing into the #oceans via #wastewater and tainting #deepsea #ecosystems, and they’re even ejecting out of the water and blowing onto land in sea breezes. And now in the American West, and presumably across the rest of the world given that these are fundamental atmospheric processes, they are falling in the form of plastic rain—the new acid rain.

    "Plastic rain could prove to be a more insidious problem than acid rain, which is a consequence of #SulfurDioxide and #NitrogenOxide emissions. By deploying #scrubbers in power plants to control the former, and catalytic converters in cars to control the latter, the US and other countries have over the last several decades cut down on the #acidification problem. But microplastic has already corrupted even the most #RemoteEnvironments, and there’s no way to scrub water or land or air of the particles—the stuff is absolutely everywhere, and it’s not like there’s a plastic magnet we can drag through the oceans. What makes plastic so useful—its hardiness—is what also makes it an alarming pollutant: Plastic never really goes away, instead breaking into ever smaller bits that infiltrate ever smaller corners of the planet. Even worse, plastic waste is expected to skyrocket from 260 million tons a year to 460 million tons by 2030, according to the consultancy McKinsey. More people joining the middle class in #EconomicallyDeveloping countries means more #consumerism and more #PlasticPackaging. "

    Read more:
    getpocket.com/explore/item/pla

    #Crapitalism #BanPlastics #WaterIsLife #OceansAreLife

  8. If there is a volcanic eruption in🌋#CampiFlegrei, a Plume of SO2 associated with CO2 and water vapor will take place along with☠#Toxic ash.
    #SulfurDioxide is an irritant to the mucous membranes:👀eyes and🗣️upper and🫁lower respiratory tracts.
    Pressure will expel🪨#pyroclasts,
    molten rock that solidifies in contact with the atmosphere.

  9. Uncertainty abounds in seeding the sky to fight #climatechange
    Atmospheric and #Climate Science researchers show stratospheric conditions resulting from #spaceshuttle exhaust are not comparable to #alumina injection scenarios for climate intervention. They found although alumina injection may have an advantage over #sulfurdioxide in terms of reduced local stratospheric heating, there are "significant uncertainties" in estimating such injections' impact on #ozonelayer.
    phys.org/news/2024-01-uncertai

  10. @Andy_Scollick and if it were not, paradoxically, for #FossilFuels pollution releasing sulfur dioxide #SO2 into the atmosphere, we already would have reached 1.5 C of average global warming. The presence of #SulfurDioxide in the atmosphere has had a net calling effect of 0.3 C.

  11. According to geology professor Shawn Willsey, in Grindavik today, they detected SO2 - a volcanic gas.

    It doesn’t mean the eruption’s imminent, especially since the most violent of the magma intrusive processes (e.g., the earthquakes and ground cracks) along the dike have subsided, so it’s not pushing upward so forcefully. But at this point, it is believed that the magma’s maybe 1/2-mile beneath the surface.

    #volcano #volcanology #magma #iceland #grindavik #so2 #SulfurDioxide

  12. Inventor in Baja is testing a plan to cool the Earth by mimicking a volcanic eruption

    by Catherine Clifford

    Make Sunsets plans to launch three balloon test launches releasing sulfur dioxide to cool the atmosphere in January from the land Iseman owns in Baja, Mexico.

    cnbc.com/2023/01/07/geoenginee

    #baja #geoengineering #climate #sulfurdioxide #globalwarming #science #erath #technology

  13. Inventor in Baja is testing a plan to cool the Earth by mimicking a volcanic eruption

    by Catherine Clifford

    Make Sunsets plans to launch three balloon test launches releasing sulfur dioxide to cool the atmosphere in January from the land Iseman owns in Baja, Mexico.

    cnbc.com/2023/01/07/geoenginee

    #baja #geoengineering #climate #sulfurdioxide #globalwarming #science #erath #technology

  14. Inventor in Baja is testing a plan to cool the Earth by mimicking a volcanic eruption

    by Catherine Clifford

    Make Sunsets plans to launch three balloon test launches releasing sulfur dioxide to cool the atmosphere in January from the land Iseman owns in Baja, Mexico.

    cnbc.com/2023/01/07/geoenginee

    #baja #geoengineering #climate #sulfurdioxide #globalwarming #science #erath #technology

  15. Inventor in Baja is testing a plan to cool the Earth by mimicking a volcanic eruption

    by Catherine Clifford

    Make Sunsets plans to launch three balloon test launches releasing sulfur dioxide to cool the atmosphere in January from the land Iseman owns in Baja, Mexico.

    cnbc.com/2023/01/07/geoenginee

    #baja #geoengineering #climate #sulfurdioxide #globalwarming #science #erath #technology

  16. Inventor in Baja is testing a plan to cool the Earth by mimicking a volcanic eruption

    by Catherine Clifford

    Make Sunsets plans to launch three balloon test launches releasing sulfur dioxide to cool the atmosphere in January from the land Iseman owns in Baja, Mexico.

    cnbc.com/2023/01/07/geoenginee

    #baja #geoengineering #climate #sulfurdioxide #globalwarming #science #erath #technology

  17. Startup Make Sunsets promises to disrupt… the stratosphere? - Enlarge / Stratospheric aerosols can make for great sunsets, regardless... - arstechnica.com/?p=1906897 #geoengineering #climatechange #sulfurdioxide #science

  18. Bristly Beard Lichen (Friday Fellow by Earthling Nature) earthlingnature.wordpress.com/ #lichens #fungi

    The #BristlyBeardLichen is very sensitive to #AirPollution, especially to #SulfurDioxide and nitrogen compounds. It has also shown the ability to bioaccumulate #HeavyMetals in its tissues. As a result, more recent studies are trying to turn it into a model species for #BioMonitoring of air #pollution.

  19. Peeking Inside a Volcano Sensor - On a recent walk through the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, [Andrew Cooper] stumb... - hackaday.com/2021/07/14/peekin #sulfurdioxide #science #volcano #hawaii #sensor