Air Pollution

View Slideshow According to the World Air Quality Index of 2019, the city of Bangkok suffers from unhealthy levels of air pollution most of the year. In a bid to raise awareness about air quality and the urban heat island effect, Thai design collective Shma Company created Safezone Shelter, an…

WUHAN, CHINA: A masked woman walks in the empty street due to the lockdown to curb the COVID ... epidemic in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province Friday, Feb. 21, 2020. Photo by Feature China/Barcroft Media via Getty Images. Barcroft Media via Getty Images China’s coronavirus lockdown likely saved tens…

Air pollution seems to gain another menacing nickname with every new study. Silent killer. Epidemic. Airpocalypse. The director of the World Health Organization has called it a “global public health emergency.” Recent headlines have declared dirty air a “pandemic,” maybe on the off-chance they will grab the attention of anxious…

Heavy smog covers the Keranigonj area as air pollution reaches the "very unhealthy" level, ... in Dhaka, Bangladesh on March 8, 2020. Bangladesh, one of the most densely-populated countries in the world, has been struggling with air pollution for a long time, while Dhaka has continued to rank among the…

The winner did not wish to be identified.The Nintendo PlayStation sells for $360,000 at auctionBidding for this legendary prototype concluded Friday when someone placed a $300,000 bid. With the buyer's premium, the person who won the auction will pay $360,000 to own a piece of gaming history.That sounds bad.Researchers discover…

Air Quality Published on March 5th, 2020 | by Cynthia Shahan March 5th, 2020 by Cynthia Shahan  Air pollution is taking three years from your life, on average, worldwide. None of us are exempt — though, young children and the elderly are more vulnerable. Professors Jos Lelieveld and Thomas Münzel…

The coronavirus outbreak is still ongoing despite our best attempts to contain it. As a result, many places have been locked down and people have been sent home in quarantine. Photos out of China have depicted Wuhan, which is the epicenter for the virus, as a ghost town as many…

(CNN)Satellite images released by NASA and the European Space Agency reveal that air pollution over China has gone down since the coronavirus outbreak. Production in many factories has been halted and transportation has been restricted to prevent spreading the virus. In mainland China, tens of thousands of cases have been…

(Bloomberg) -- China’s lockdown measures to minimize further coronavirus infections have created one unexpected benefit -- a dramatic improvement to the nation’s air quality.Satellites operated by NASA and the European Space Agency have detected significant drops of major airborne pollutants above vast swathes of the country.Before-and-after images show how nitrogen…

New Yorkers use an estimated 23 billion plastic bags a year, and environmentalists are hoping the state’s plastic bag ban, which goes into effect March 1, will curb that number (and the subsequent majority of those plastic bags that end up in landfill). But that ban doesn’t mean that beginning…