Air Pollution

A plume of Sahara dust has caused a sharp rise in air pollution in parts of southern and central Europe, researchers have said. The huge cloud of fine sand moving northward from Algeria has blanketed the region, turning skies red in Stuttgart in Germany and leaving slopes of the Alps…

BERLIN (AP) — A plume of Sahara dust that has blanketed parts of southern and central Europe in recent days caused a short, sharp spike in air pollution across the region, researchers said Tuesday. The European Commission’s Copernicus satellite monitoring program said measured levels of particles smaller than 10 micrometers…

A proposed hybrid-electric plane could “eliminate aviation’s air pollution problem,” say MIT engineers. Proposed design could reduce nitrogen oxide emissions by 95 percent, a new study finds. At cruising altitude, airplanes emit a steady stream of nitrogen oxides into the atmosphere, where the chemicals can linger to produce ozone and…

An old dog, it turns out, can teach humans new tricks. “In recent years the dog has grown to be one of the most important animals for researchers who aim to understand the biological background of complex traits,” says Eniko Kubinyi, an ethologist at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary.…

Haze to shroud Bangkok for a week published : 2 Feb 2021 at 20:20 Fine dust particles blanket Bangkok on Jan 24. (File photo: Wichan Charoenkiatpakul) A haze is expected to choke Bangkok and the upper parts of the country until Monday next week, as changing atmospheric patterns are trapping…

Air pollution in urban areas is linked to heightened risk of progressive and irreversible sight loss known as age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a major study of more than 52,000 people has found. AMD is the leading cause of irreversible blindness among over 50s in Ireland and in high-income countries –…

BEIJING - A Chinese central government inspection team has accused the country's energy administration of negligence in environmental protection, failing to control new coal power capacity in key polluted areas. The team from the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE), in its latest round of audits, found that the National…

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Credit: CC0 Public Domain Air pollution is linked to a heightened risk of progressive and irreversible sight loss, known as age related macular degeneration, or AMD for short, reveals a large long term study, published online in the British Journal of Ophthalmology. If these findings are confirmed, they could pave…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Research has studied the effects of climate risk on financial markets, but few studies have addressed the effect of environmental policy on those markets. A new study examined whether federal policy aimed at mitigating local air pollution—specifically, the Clean Air Act—affected the municipal bond market from…