{"id":2865,"date":"2014-08-22T21:33:51","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T02:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2865"},"modified":"2014-08-25T12:15:21","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T17:15:21","slug":"toronto-air-pollution-slowly-getting-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/toronto-air-pollution-slowly-getting-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto air pollution slowly getting better<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Efforts to curb air pollution in Canada\u2019s largest city are having an effect, although there\u2019s still room for improvement, according to a new study. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Researchers analysed data from provincial and federal monitoring programs and found that between 2004 and 2012, levels of both nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) decreased by about half. However, ground-level ozone &#8211; which forms via a chemical reaction between air and other pollutants &#8211; remains high. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The authors say it will be a few more years before the full benefits of pollution reduction programs can be seen in ozone levels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atmos-chem-phys.net\/14\/8197\/2014\/acp-14-8197-2014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Original research paper<\/a><\/span>\u00a0published in the journal\u00a0<em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics\u00a0<\/span><\/em>on\u00a0<strong>August 15, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Jennifer Murphy, University of Toronto, Ontario<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Efforts to curb air pollution in Canada\u2019s largest city are having an effect, although there\u2019s still room for improvement, according to a new study. Researchers analysed data from provincial and federal monitoring programs and found that between 2004 and 2012, levels of both nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) decreased by about half. However, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[2146,31,215,50,1286],"class_list":["post-2865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-air-pollution","tag-climate-change","tag-environment","tag-ontario","tag-pollution"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-Kd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2865"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2869,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2865\/revisions\/2869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}