Air Pollution

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Air pollution from the burning of fossil fuels impacts human health but predicting pollution levels at a given time and place remains challenging, according to a team of scientists who are turning to deep learning to improve air quality estimates. Results of the team's study could be helpful for modelers…

EPA Administrator Michael Regan is straightening up the agency’s advisory boards.Photo: Joshua Roberts (Getty Images)When he wasn’t busy searching for Ritz Carlton lotion, former Environmental Protection Administrator Scott Pruitt also gutted the agency’s science advisory boards. But after forcing out impartial scientists and installing people who literally denied air pollution’s…

To grow up in Pittsburgh in the 1990s and 2000s—as I did—was to experience something paradoxical: slow-motion whiplash. In my early childhood, everyone seemed to agree that the city was dying around us—another victim of deindustrialization and globalization and a general brain drain, the factories gone forever and talented young…

Physical activity is important in preventing heart and blood vessel disease in young people so long as they don't undertake very strenuous activity on days when air pollution levels are high, according to a nationwide study of nearly 1.5 million people published today (Tuesday) in the European Heart Journal. Until…

Beverage firm to use solar power Listed beverage firm Pepsi-Cola Products Philippines, Inc. (PCPPI) has recently signed a deal for the installation of solar panels in its manufacturing plants in Batangas, Cebu, and Davao.  Such a move, according to PCPPI, is seen to reduce its dependency on grid electricity produced…

Capital hit by second sandstorm in less than two weeks as air quality index tops out at 500 Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Hebei, Tianjin, Liaoning and Jilin also affected, Xinhua says Published: 1:33pm, 28 Mar, 2021 Updated: 6:38pm, 28 Mar, 2021 Read More

When power stations burn coal, a class of compounds called Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons, or PAHs, form part of the resulting air pollution. Researchers have found that PAHs toxins degrade in sunlight into ‘children’ compounds and by-products. Some ‘children’ compounds can be more toxic than the ‘parent’ PAHs. Rivers and dams…

An increasing number of Indian customers are willing to buy electric vehicles of late, the government has been making a determined push towards electric mobility. The Union Minister for Road Transport & Highways, Nitin Gadkari recently asked the EV manufacturing industry to shift towards indigenous battery technologies while assuring the…

This animation uses data from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite to show the monthly average nitrogen dioxide concentrations over China in February 2019, February 2020 and February 2021. Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2019-21), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO In early 2020, data from satellites were used to…