Tag: ozone

  • Health

    Keep the dog cool

    Science has shown that violence among monkeys, rats, and mice increases when the weather is warm. Now it seems we can add dogs to the list.

    4 minutes
    Angry dog with bared teeth.
  • Science & Tech

    Studying environmental issues in China

    A group of Harvard undergraduatess interested in fighting environmental decline spent the summer studying China’s problems and working alongside scholars whose efforts are directed at a host of issues.

    4 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Midwest summer storms threaten ozone, study warns

    Summer storms in the central U.S. create the same chemical reactions damaging ozone in the Arctic, warns a Harvard study calling for a closer look at the region’s UV radiation risk.

    2 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    No cookie-cutter fixes on air pollution

    A Nobel Prize-winning chemist has called for additional research into the air pollution blanketing the world’s megacities, saying that solutions found in the developed world’s cities are not likely to apply in other places.

    4 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    The complex relationship between heat and ozone

    If emission rates continue unchecked, regions of the United States could experience between three and nine additional days of unhealthy ozone levels each year by 2050, according to a new study from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

    3 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Concerns about climate change, health

    A team of researchers led by James G. Anderson, the Philip S. Weld Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry, warns that a newly discovered connection between climate change and depletion of the ozone layer over the U.S. could allow more damaging ultraviolet (UV) radiation to reach the Earth’s surface, leading to increased incidence of skin cancer.

    5 minutes