Air Pollution

Jorge Osvaldo Heredia lives in the San Bernardino foothills in a valley at the foot of the San Bernardino Mountains, a stunning backdrop on most days. But come summer, the air pollution in San Bernardino gets so thick, like a “hot blanket of smog” that it obscures the view of…

Thousands of COVID-19 cases and deaths in California, Oregon, and Washington between March and December 2020 may be attributable to increases in fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) from wildfire smoke, according to a new study co-authored by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The study is the…

Google is updating its Nest Hub displays with a new feature that displays the air quality index (AQI), Android Central has reported. The feature will appear on the weather widget, showing a numeric ranking from 0 to 500 and color coding from green (good) to maroon (hazardous). Google is taking…

Updates for merchant shipping safety and prevention of pollution regulations proposed *************************************************************************************      The Government proposes to amend five regulations under the Merchant Shipping (Safety) Ordinance and the Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Air Pollution) Regulation to incorporate the latest requirements under the International Convention for the Safety of Life at…

Indian states are deploying a new policy tool that shows potential to reduce their high air-pollution levels, which are estimated to have caused nearly 1.7 million deaths, or 18% of all Indian deaths, in 2019. The policy tool — an emissions trading system (ETS) known as “cap-and-trade” — has successfully…

By Robert Preidt HealthDay ReporterFRIDAY, Aug. 6, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- It's long been know that pollution can damage the heart and lungs, but new research finds that it's bad for your brain, too. A long-term study by a Seattle team linked exposure to higher levels of fine particulate air…

/ Europe Issued on: 04/08/2021 - 16:51 The Eiffel Tower is seen through smog on March 14, 2014. © Patrick Kovarik, AFP/file France's top administrative court on Wednesday fined the government a record sum for failing to reduce air pollution to acceptable levels.  The Council of State slapped its highest…

A ground-breaking project to unlock the environmental potential of hedgerows has been given the go-ahead with a government grant of £81,561. The scheme, being developed by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) at its demonstration farm, The Allerton Project, will develop a Hedgerow Carbon Code which will encourage hedgerow…

In 1950, the historian Henry Steele Commager wrote about the Tennessee Valley Authority, the New Deal agency that brought electricity and economic development to seven states in the rural South. It was, he said, no less than “the greatest peacetime achievement of twentieth-century America,” a triumphant alliance of “science and…

India's poor face outsized air pollution death risk PARIS, France– The poorest 10 percent of Indians face a risk of dying from air pollution that is nine times higher than for the richest 10 percent, according to research released Monday. This photo taken on July 21, 2021 shows a worker…