Air Pollution

Power shutdowns intended to prevent more devastating California wildfires are raising new concerns about another longstanding environmental threat: air pollution. As utilities halted service to more than 2 million people this week, lines formed at hardware s…

Story Highlights Washington revokes Californias ability to impose tough auto emissions standards, then tries to punish it for having significant air pollution.It's a president angered by the fact that the state has the size and clout  as the…

In the UK, this means roughly 7.4 million men are losing their hair. Genetic factors remain the most influential known cause of baldness. Sources of PM include the burning of fossil fuels, including petrol, diesel and other solid-fuels such as coal, oil and…

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…