Air Pollution

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…

Back in 2011, Germany decided that it was done with nuclear power. The Fukushima Daiichi plant had just melted down in Japan, and the threat of disaster seemed overwhelming. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government, which had intended to keep Germany’s plants open, did an about face and voted to shut down…

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…

By Adam Vaughan Air pollution can come from cooking indoors using solid biomass fuels Towfiqu Photography/Getty Images The number of health effects linked to air pollution keeps growing. We already know dirty air is associated with problems in the lungs, h…

Barcelona imposed a ban Thursday on older, more polluting vehicles during most of the day in a bid to reduce air pollution in Spain's second largest city. Gasoline-powered cars registered in Spain before 2000, and diesel-powered cars registered before 2006 a…

One of the primary problems, he said, is that the E.P.A., in an unusual move, used a flawed economic model that had not been reviewed either internally by federal agencies or in the academic literature. That model found what Mr. Wilcoxen described as the real…

At least 17 people have died of respiratory infections in Kabul over the past week due to hazardous levels of air pollution, Afghanistan's health ministry said. Over 8,800 patients have visited government hospitals in a week, suffering from health conditions…