Chemists Find New Important Contributor To Urban Smog (Science Daily) Chemists have discovered that a chemical reaction in the atmosphere above major cities long assumed to be unimportant in urban air pollution is in fact a significant contributor to urban ozone -- the main component of smog. [News Source]

Black Carbon Pollution Emerges As Major Player In Global Warming (Science Daily) Black carbon, a form of particulate air pollution most often produced from biomass burning, cooking with solid fuels and diesel exhaust, has a warming effect in the atmosphere three to four times greater than prevailing estimates. soot and other forms of black carbon could have as much as 60 percent of the current global warming effect of carbon dioxide, more than that of any greenhouse gas ... [News Source]

Air Pollution Control District announces poster contest (The Monterey County Herald) Entries are being sought in the 10th annual Clean Air month poster contest for children in first through eighth grade by the Monterey Bay Unified Air Pollution Control District. [News Source]

Black carbon pollution emerges as major player in global warming (PhysOrg) Black carbon, a form of particulate air pollution most often produced from biomass burning, cooking with solid fuels and diesel exhaust, has a warming effect in the atmosphere three to four times greater than prevailing estimates, according to scientists in an upcoming review article in the journal Nature Geoscience. [News Source]

Increased air testing looms in Fairbanks’ future (Fairbanks Daily News-Miner) A state air quality specialist said Wednesday that the borough should consider refining a comprehensive testing regime aimed at pinning down the source of Fairbanks’ most common type of air pollution. [News Source]