Air Pollution

Changes in the climate, air pollution and occupational health hazards are some of the causes for the increase in lung diseases among people, say pulmonologists. However, without a registry on the causes, there are no yardsticks to measure what kind of disease…

The U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), the Trump administrations trade deal, passed 89-10 in the Republican-controlled Senate on Thursday with one high-profile defection: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. Schumer, who as late as last month said he was…

Chemists and hardware stores across Australia are selling out of masks as the bushfire crisis continues. Thick smoke has blanketed major cities for weeks, with air quality reaching over 20 times the hazardous level in some places.  Sporting events and mu…

The world is gonna get a lot warmer. The unusually warm winter weekend that just ended for those of us in the Northeast is a reminder of what thatll look like. Sure, it was kinda nice to spend some time outside in a t-shirt in January. But a new study…

(Reuters) - Smoke from Australia’s bushfires has blanketed its major cities over the past month, turned the sky over New Zealand bright orange and left sooty deposits on its glaciers and drifted across the Pacific to South America. Reuters used readings fro…

This article originally appeared on VICE Australia. There are parts of Australia where its currently a health risk to step outside and breathe. One is the nations capital, which last week boasted the most heavily polluted air in the world. At 1 a.m. on New Y…

In 2017, I was working for Google in the Bay Area of California, lamenting the ever-rising cost of housing, when a co-worker mentioned he was moving to Pittsburgh. I talked it over with my partner, and we did some basic research. We checked property values, n…

Thanks to the coal industrys rapid decline, U.S. greenhouse gas emissions likely dropped slightly last year. But dont get too used to that trend, because the oil and gas industry is poised to more than offset that reduction. By 2025, oil and gas companies hav…

Mapping invasive species on New Orleans Bayou Bienvenue In May 2010 I set out early one morning with a small group of concerned Gulf Coast residents, headed to meet a boat captain who would take us to the Chandeleur Islands, a chain of barrier islands in sou…

The Indonesian capital of Jakarta experienced some of the worst flooding in nearly a decade as the new year began this week. At least 43 people have died and nearly 400,000 have been left displaced. More rains are expected in the coming week, further adding…