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...project, called the "24-Cities study," is being conducted at the Harvard School of Public Health (SPH), and focuses on the effects of high concentration of acid aerosols--the byproducts of burning fossil fuels--on children...
Since such a shift did not occur, "we now see decay products of sulfur dioxide that move into acid rain" instead of direct sulfur dioxide pollution, Dockery said...
...result, the 24-Cities study was initiated to look into acid aerosols that stay suspended in the air and are "very toxic," said Dockery...
...study, started in 1987 while the Harvard team was still collecting data for the Six-Cities study, "was designed to monitor the air a year before we went to examine the children," said Speizer. This way, he said, the researchers could determine whether the levels of acid aerosols had any health effects...
...lives. More than that, it is reasserting itself with great force. A survey of high-level policy leaders and futurists by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, released this month, shows a sudden upsurge in support for nuclear power following a decade of rejection. As the world worries about global warming and acid rain, even some environmentalists are looking a bit more kindly on the largest power source that doesn't worsen either problem: nuclear. New reactor designs would make accidents like Chernobyl and Three Mile Island impossible, or so the engineers say, and while much of the public is skeptical, some scientists...