First Air Quality Profile of Two Sub-Saharan African Cities Finds Troubling News
Pollution Up to 5 Times Over International Guidelines
Dan Westervelt setting up a low-cost air quality monitor.
Ambient air pollution is a global public health crisis, causing more than 4.9 million premature deaths per year around the world. In Africa, it has surpassed AIDS as the leading cause of premature death. According to one study, air pollution specifically, fine particulate matter (PM2.5) may cause at least as many as 780,000 premature deaths annually in Africa and worsen a significant number of diseases, including asthma, lung cancer, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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February 9, 2021
This article continues Climate.gov’s series of interviews with current and former fellows in the NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Program about the nature of their research funded by NOAA and what career and education highlights preceded and followed it.
Over the past 30 years, the Postdoctoral Program, funded by NOAA Climate Program Office, has hosted over 200 fellows. The Program’s purpose is to help create and train the next generation of researchers in climate science. Appointed fellows are hosted by mentoring scientists at U.S. universities and research institutions.
Our interview is with Rebecca Jackson, a former NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow (2016-2018) and current assistant professor at Rutgers University’s Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences. Her research explores the interaction between the ocean and cryosphere. She is a physical oceanographer interested in ocean-glacier interaction, coastal dyn
Auburn professor Bodewits’ work included in NASA’s Hubble timeline
Published: February 17, 2021
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NASA recently included the work of Dennis Bodewits an associate professor in Auburn University’s Department of Physics in the College of Sciences and Mathematics in a timeline highlighting the history of the revolutionary Hubble Space Telescope.
Bodewits used the telescope to study the composition of Comet 2I/Borisov, the first interstellar comet to pass through our solar system, and his findings originally published in an April 20, 2020, article were included as an historic highlight in the interactive Hubble History Timeline. Bodewits’ work helped detail the comet’s unusual chemical makeup, which includes an abundance of carbon monoxide.
China s rover discovers elongated milestone rock sticking out on the far side of the moon that may have formed after repeated meteor impacts
China s Yutu 2 rover recently woke from a 14-day slumber on the moon during the lunar night
After powering back on, the rover spotted a milestone rock on the surface that experts say is unusual
It is an elongated, sharp rock sticking out from the surface on the far side that formed from meteor impacts