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September 06, 2013

Flights over Pacific highest-producers of ozone
Cambridge, Mass. (UPI) Sep 5, 2013
Flights over the Pacific, specifically leaving and entering Australia and New Zealand, create the most ozone, a new study says. Conducted by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the study was published Thursday in IOP Publishing's journal, Environmental Research Letters. The study, which analyzed around 83,000 individual commercial flights, pinpointed a specific area over the Pacific approximately 621 miles to the east of the Solomon Islands that is the most sensitive to aircraft emiss ... read more

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