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Sulphur dioxide detected with satellites using new technique developed at Environment Canada
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/so2-pollution-satellite-detection-1.3610537 [www.cbc.ca]

Polluters can no longer hide their emissions of sulphur dioxide by failing to report them. Canadian researchers have found a way to detect that kind of pollution using satellites.

In doing so, they've uncovered some very big polluters: oil and gas plants in the Persian Gulf that hadn't been reporting their emissions. Those polluters may be responsible for six to 12 per cent of man-made emissions worldwide of sulphur dioxide.

Also:

Volcano surprise

"Initially, I think we maybe thought it wasn't working when we got these huge sources in the middle of the Pacific," McLinden recalled.

Those turned out to be volcanoes — the study found 75 of them emitting substantial amounts of sulphur dioxide, despite the fact that they were dormant and not erupting.

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