Air Pollution

Human-made air pollutants are likely the reason for a drop in precipitation from the Asian summer monsoon, according to new research. Rainfall from the Asian summer monsoon has been decreasing for the past 80 years, a decline unprecedented in the last 448 ye…

If you're in Amsterdam, you might see Google Street View cars driving around.  Google Despite almost half of Amsterdam's population biking to get to their destinations, air pollution is still a problem. Google is bringing two of Project Air View's Street Vi…

This article is part of a limited-run newsletter. You can sign up here. You cant solve a problem that you cant define. Thats why I love this dual definition of privacy by Maciej Ceglowski, one of my favorite writers and thinkers on technology. Its from his w…

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New Delhi suffered a rare summer air pollution alert Monday as dust storms and heat over northern India took smog to hazardous levels. The world's most polluted capital city is blanketed in a toxic smog of car fumes, agricultural smoke and factory waste most…

People pick up tulips at the National Tulip Day on the Dam, Amsterdam, on January 19, 2019. - The event is the official start of the international tulip season which runs until the end of April. (Photo by Robin Utrecht / ANP / AFP) / Netherlands OUTROBIN UTRE…

The fight for clean air

Governments around the world spend an enormous amount of money every year making it cheaper for fossil fuel companies to exhaust the planet. But they’re not spending nearly as much as a recent report may make it seem. The International Monetary Fund recently …

The processes that create ozone pollution in the summer can also trigger the formation of wintertime air pollution, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder and NOAA, in partnership with the University of Utah. The team'…

Nearly ever US National Park is plagued by 'significant' air pollution