Air Pollution

Air pollution negatively impacts the U.S. economy, costing the U.S. roughly 5 percent of its yearly gross domestic product (GDP) in damages ($790 billion in 2014). The highest costs come from early deaths, attributable to exposure to fine particulate matter (…

I wonder what the footprint of the credit card/banking system is? I'm not really a fan of bitcoin, mainly it's pump and dump hucksterism, but if you add up all the compute, paper, plastic, human effort, etc.. consumed by the banking system I bet it's vastly, …

The Indian Supreme court has ruled a 35-kilometre expansion to the Mumbai Metro must be halted over fears it would exacerbate hazardous levels of air pollution. Line 3 is slated to open in December 2021 and officials claim it will reduce the number of vehicl…

Rooftops covered with grass, vegetable gardens, and lush foliage are now a common sight in many cities around the world. More and more private companies and city authorities are investing in green roofs, drawn to their wide-ranging benefits, which include sav…

The app that translates air pollution into cigarettes

Aspirin may lessen the negative effects of air pollution, an intriguing new study concludes. Researchers from Columbia, Harvard and Boston Universities analyzed a subset of data collected from 2,280 male veterans from the greater Boston area who were given t…

A dose of aspirin can do more than just soothe your headache, a new study suggestsit might also protect your lungs from air pollution. Air pollution harms our bodies in all sorts of ways, both short-term and long-term. One of these ways is through irritating…

Breathing dirty air can make you sick. But according to new research, it can also make you more aggressive. That's the conclusion from a set of studies recently authored by Colorado State University researchers in economics, atmospheric science and statistic…

We are all aware of the adverse levels of air pollution in public places, on the streets, in our cities, basically everywhere except our homes. But heres a little shocker; our homes arent completely free from aerial pollution….yet!  One of the many guaranteed…

Electric cars are held up by pretty much everyone as a viable solution to the emissions nightmare that is internal combustion engines as long as theyre adopted quickly enough, the electricity comes from renewable energy and we also drive a little bit less. Bu…