Tag: Air Pollution - Page 5
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NASA Satellites Reveal Decline in U.S. Coal Pollution
And guess what's behind the waning pollution? Cap and trade!
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Inefficient Planes and Rising Oil Prices Sunk American Airlines
Old, inefficient planes, along with rising labor costs, sunk the nation's erstwhile largest airline.
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Farmer-Owned Corn Ethanol Cooperative Fined For Falsifying Air Pollution Records
what makes a company fake pollution control records?
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What's the #1 Air-Pollution Source in Montreal During Winter? Old Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
The government is offering incentives ranging from $300 to $900 to replace old polluting wood stoves and fireplaces with cleaner-burning modern models.
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How to Keep Fracking Out of Our Drinking Water: An Interview with Josh Fox, Director of Gasland
The Academy Award nominated director talks fracking, civil disobedience, and the decision that could endanger 15.6 million people's drinking water.
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Behold: The 20 Dirtiest, Most Polluted Cities in America
Aw, crap. My hometown made the top 10.
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New Study Links Air Pollution to Extreme Weather
The harmfull effects of air pollution on the human body are well documented, from causing brain damage to increasing the risk of heart attacks, but it turns out that it can put people under the weather in more ways than one.
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Ask Pablo: Diesel vs. Hybrid, Which Is Better?
Pablo compares hybrids with diesel cars to find out which is more sustainable.
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Nitrogen Air Pollution is Fertilizing Tropical Forests
One more side-effect of air pollution that must be taken into account by scientists in their models and predictions.
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Traffic Makes Us Dumber: Scientists Say Car Exhaust Causes Brain Damage
Scientists find evidence that vehicle pollution in congested areas causes brain damage. It's yet another pressing reason we need to start moving beyond the automobile.
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Tropical Cyclones Intensified By Rising South Asian Air Pollution
Increases in pollution over South Asia in recent decades have caused alterations in the wind patterns over the Indian Ocean, allowing more intense storms to develop.
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Major Victory: Dangerous Leaded Gasoline Now Banned Worldwide
See, there's still hope for global cooperation on pressing environmental issues -- the world has decided to do away with dangerous leaded gasoline.
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New Synthetic Bacteria Can Detect Air Pollution & Color-Code Your Poop (Video)
Yes, that's poop. Image: Daisy Ginsberg How Synthetic Biology Could Change the World Daisy Ginsberg is an artist and designer currently exploring the frontiers of possibility in the emergent field of synthetic biology. She just gave what was by far one
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Tea Party + Coal Companies + Fox News = All-Out PR War on the EPA (Video)
It's no accident that something as innocuous as the Environmental Protection Agency has become the right's villain du jour -- it was the result of careful coordination, especially between coal companies, Republican politicians, and, yes, Fox News. If
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Why I'm Occupying Wall Street with the Green Movement Today
Since the Occupy Wall Street movement began, there's been plenty of long-winded pontificating about what it stands for or what it doesn't stand for or what it should stand for and so on. (Most of that pontificating
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The Valencians Have A Problem: The Falles, Culture vs. Environment
During the Valencia Design Week, the organisers of the FEED, the international bloggers meeting, took us to la Ciudad Fallera, the 'City of Falles'. This is an industrial area where they build the Falles all
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Think US Clean Air Regulations Don't Work? Check Out Which Cities in the World Are Dirtiest
Most TreeHugger readers probably don't need convincing that strong regulations on air pollution are a good thing for personal and environmental
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Pollution From Cars Can Trigger a Heart Attack
While the sight of a hazy, smog filled cloud looming over the cityscape is certainly enough to break the heart of any would-be outdoorsman, it turns out that breathing in that pollution just might do so -- quite literally.
