Climate Solutions Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change. Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.

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LIke other nitrogen oxides, nitrogen dioxide is caused not only by power plants but cars and other vehicles with internal-combustion engines. And, as freeways were disproportionately built through ...

Greater levels of ambient nitrogen dioxide (NO 2) exposure may be associated with higher ovarian cancer incidence, according to a research letter published in Environmental Health Perspectives. 1 ...

Both nitrogen and carbon dioxide can promote plant growth. In the grassland experiment, called BioCON, application of the two resources spurred growth that allowed a few dominant species to hog ...

Lewis Structure of Carbon Dioxide: Carbon dioxide (CO 2) is a fundamental molecule in chemistry, playing a crucial role in various biological and environmental processes. Understanding its Lewis ...

Unhealthy levels of pollutants For the study, the researchers used sensors in over 100 homes to measure the levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) present throughout the living spaces.

Gas and propane stoves create NO2 when they heat the air so much that two atoms of oxygen combine with one atom of nitrogen. Electric stoves, which don’t get as hot, do not cause the same reaction.

In the bedrooms that were tested, concentrations of nitrogen dioxide exceeded the World Health Organization’s 1-hour exposure guideline within 25 minutes of cooking.

A gas-lit flame burns on a natural gas stove. (Thomas Kienzle/AP) This article is more than 1 year old. Air pollution from gas and propane stoves has caused about 50,000 current cases of childhood ...

Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd., South Africa’s state power company, disputed the findings of a Greenpeace report that it operates many of the world’s worst emission sites for toxic nitrogen dioxide ...