Air Pollution

Written by Kanchan Vasdev | Chandigarh | Published: December 9, 2019 2:40:08 am No longer business as usual in Mandi Gobindgarh. (Express photo by Harmeet Sodhi)From being a critically polluted city till last year to a 100-point improvement in the Air Q…

The fossil fuel industry, political lobbyists, media moguls, and individuals have spent the past 30 years sowing doubt about the reality of climate change where none exists. The latest estimate is that the worlds five largest publicly-owned oil and gas compan…

After establishing itself as a leader among media companies in augmented reality in journalism over the course of 2018, The New York Times pulled back from the technology this year. But this week, the media giant finally returned to the AR space to produce a…

The biggest thing you can do is to switch to LED lights. If you do, youll use up to 70 percent less energy than you would with traditional incandescent bulbs. Plus, you wont need to replace lights as often. LEDs last about 10 times longer. If you want the li…

In the past decade, Congress and the White House cut the federal Environmental Protection Agencys (EPA) funding for science and pollution regulation by 16 percent (if you adjust for inflation) and cut 2,699 positions. Those cuts were fueled by the idea that e…

Back in September, as youth around the world took to the streets for the Global Climate Strike, high schoolers in Richmond, California were dealing with the trauma of a shooting outside De Anza High School on the same day 17-year-old Petelavanh Owen Syharath …

It’s been 10 years since Uber revolutionized ride-hailing. 2019 was to be the year that consecrated a decade of tremendous growth with record-breaking IPOs. Unfortunately for the ride-hailing platforms, 2019 is actually about to become an annus horribilis. T…

Air pollution forced the closure of schools and universities in parts of Iran on Saturday, including Tehran, which was cloaked by a cloud of toxic smog, state media reported. The young and elderly and people with respiratory illnesses were warned to stay ind…

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, I am being lazy today because it is the Friday after Thanksgiving. –lambert Politics “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51 “The…

South Korea will suspend up to a quarter of its coal-fired power plants in the next three months, even as demand for electricity peaks during the bitter winter, as it seeks to tackle air pollution, Seoul said Thursday. The world's 11th largest economy is str…