By Daniel Brouse Many days in the Philadelphia region are not healthy for breathing. On “Ozone Action Alert Days” you are advised to avoid outside activities. Children should not play outdoors. Avoid running and other fitness activities. Do not breathe in unconditioned air. Low level ozone is volatile and causes micro-explosions in your lungs that […]
Category Archives: Trees
WARNING! Hold Your Breath / Air Quality Alert
Also posted in children, Energy, Environment, Global Warming, health and wellness, Medicine, Science
Tagged air quality, Asthma, breathing, climate change, global warming, harm, ill, lungs, ozone, ozone alert, respiratory system, sickness, trees, Tropospheric Ozone
Comments closed
Losing 10 Billion Trees Per Year
Part of the study Foliage Spoilage & the Trees’ Canopy Collapse Thomas Crowther is a Yale Climate & Energy Institute postdoctoral fellow at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES) and led a study and census of the world’s trees (2015). The study determined there are 3 trillion trees on Earth; however, the […]
Also posted in Agriculture, Education, Environment, Global Warming, Science
Tagged climate change, tree death
Comments closed
Trees: Sudden Oak Death “Unstoppable”
A new report out of Cambridge University has determined that the sudden oak death epidemic in California is unstoppable. “Sudden oak death – caused by Phytophthora ramorum, a fungus-like pathogen related to potato blight – has killed millions of trees over hundreds of square kilometres of forest in California. First detected near San Francisco in […]
Also posted in Agriculture, Education, Environment, Science
Tagged California, death, deforestation, forest, trees
Comments closed
Climate Change Health Hazard
Physicians For Social Responsibility report: High in the Earth’s atmosphere, naturally occurring ozone is essential to protecting life on Earth from the harmful ultraviolet rays of the sun. However, here on Earth’s surface, ground-level ozone is a harmful pollutant. Source of Ozone: Ground-level ozone is formed when two major classes of air pollutants — nitrogen […]
Also posted in Environment, Global Warming, health and wellness, Science
Tagged air pollution, Asthma, chronic bronchitis, climate change, emphysema, health impacts, ozone, pneumonia, respiratory and cardiovascular ailments, sunburn of the lungs
Comments closed
12.5 Million Dead Trees in California
CALIFORNIA — In a survey conducted by the U.S. Forest Service, they found the severe drought in California has caused the death of over 12 million trees. California is in its third year of drought. In 2014, a large increase in tree mortality was observed, especially in the Central Coast and Southern Sierra Ranges. Ground […]
Also posted in Environment, Global Warming, Science
Tagged climate change, drought, extreme weather events, tree death
Comments closed