Air Pollution

As researchers for the certifying body for personal protective equipment in the United States, we caution against misinterpretation of Wei Huangs and Lidia Morawskas contention that face masks could increase health risks from air pollution (Nature574, 2930; 2…

Australians are used to dealing with brutal fire seasons, but barely a week into summer, 2019 is already something else. Already, 6 lives have been lost and almost 700 homes destroyed by bushfires. The world was briefly captivated by the plight of burned koa…

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…