Tag: Air pollution

Air Pollution Could Worsen Water Shortages in a Changing Climate

by Stephanie Worley Firley, Eastern Threat Center  • 
Over the past 40 years since the passage of the Clean Air Act, air pollution from automobiles, factories, and power plants has substantially decreased, leading to better human and environmental health. But air pollution and its impacts on people and ecosystems remain a concern amid growing demands for transportation, energy, and manufactured goods. University and…  More 

Mount Ascutney Visitors Enjoy the View and Learn Something, Too

by Stephanie Worley Firley, EFETAC  • 
Over the past decade, countless visitors on southeastern Vermont’s Mount Ascutney have read the words on two interpretive panels describing ongoing research that began as a graduate student’s research project there. Through the years, the panels have faded and weathered, but now they are new again after U.S. Forest Service researchers installed updated replacements in…  More 

Future Wilderness Area Benefits from Clean Air Act

by Zoe Hoyle, SRS Science Communications  • 
A newly published report by the U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station shows that soil conditions in two Western North Carolina wilderness areas will keep improving over the next century as a result of continued reductions in air pollution resulting from the implementation of the Clean Air Act and other ongoing air pollution emission reductions.…  More 

Ozone Effects on Forest Watersheds in the Southeast

by Zoe Hoyle, SRS Science Communications  • 
  Southern Research Station (SRS) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) scientists have found that rising levels of ozone, a greenhouse gas, may amplify the impacts of higher temperatures and reduce streamflow from forests to rivers, streams, and other water bodies. Such effects could potentially reduce water supplies available to support forest ecosystems and people…  More