Sacramento Bee The study also noted that there was a large difference in particulate matter between the north and south, but not in other forms of air pollution such as sulfur dioxide and nitrous oxide. Francesca Dominici, a professor of biostatistics at Harvard ...
Pacific Standard And in the incredibly capital-intensive realm of mining, these metals—all with their own essential industrial uses—have a huge effect on the tough ore equation. Molybdenum is the most common among these other metals. Moly, as it's usually called in ... and more »
Guardian Express They are the result geological activity and surface water or areas within the earth's crust. Because the Vostok fills a rift ... Many of the organisms are likely chemolithotrophs, which rely on inorganic compounds of iron, sulfur , and other elements ... and more »
Macon Telegraph (blog) These diseases are caused by fungi and bacteria that love wet weather. Round to slightly irregular spots appear on the leaves of shrubs, flowers, fruits and vegetables. If the spots get numerous, the leaves may completely die or fall off. If you look ...
Bloomberg By Dan Murtaugh - 2013-07-09T22:23:22Z. Gasoline on the spot market in Portland, Oregon , strengthened to the highest level in seven weeks as pipelines in the Northwest shut or ran at reduced capacity following spills. Phillips 66 (PSX) expects to ... and more »
Platts ExxonMobil's Tapis enhanced oil recovery, or EOR, project, which will help sustain the current production level of Malaysia's Tapis blend crude, is expected to start up by the end of 2013, a spokeswoman with the oil major's Malaysian subsidiary said ... and more »
SuburbanJournals This especially scares me: all the sulfur dioxide and particulate matter and other toxins emitted from the smokestacks of this power plant. In 2012, Sierra Club released a map that shows that the allowable sulfur dioxide emissions from the Meramec coal ...
The Idaho Statesman "If the system is not working properly, you may smell exhaust inside the cab of your car or a sulfur smell," said Clay Whitehead, owner of Pronto Lube & Tune in Boise, Idaho. "It can be dangerous to your health." The exhaust system consists of several ... and more »
Canadian Mining Journal Sulfur ( or "S") as well as a suite of elements was analyzed by ALS Minerals using ICP-AES and ICP-MS methods (ALS laboratory code; ME-MS61) following total digestion by four acid; perchloric, nitric, hydrofluoric and hydrochloric. The technical ... and more »
Raw Story Back from my travels and still a little wrung out from the nearly-inevitable-these-days delays that get you home in the middle of the night when you were scheduled to be there around the dinner hour. There are many pressing, important issues to blog ...