Tag: Air Pollution - Page 9
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Breast Cancer Possibly Linked to Air Pollution
Photo: Flickr, CC "Women living in the areas with the highest levels of pollution were almost twice as likely to develop breast cancer" A study recently published by researchers based in Montréal, Canada, has found a worrying correlation between markers
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X-Prize Foundation and Indian Government to Launch Prize for Clean Cookstoves
A couple weeks ago, Matt wrote a great post about why access to clean-burning and efficient cookstoves is so important, especially for people in poorer regions of Africa, Asia and South America. It might seem like a small thing, but
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Honda Wins UCS "Greenest Automaker" Prize for 5th Year in a Row
Photo: Flickr, CC Guess Who Still Lags Behind? Each year, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) gives environmental scores to automakers based on average per-mile smog pollution and global warming emissions of the entire fleet of vehicles sold. Honda
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EPA to Set Even Tougher Fuel Economy Standards for 2017-2025
Photo credit: eutrophication&hypoxia; via Flickr/CC BY But Just How Tough? There's been much speculation about what the EPA's post-2016 fuel economy standards will be when they're announced this week. As of now, thanks to an executive order from the
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Study Estimates 8,000 Premature Deaths Per Year Caused by Unregulated Airplane Emissions
Image: ACS, Barrett et al. And That's Just Cruise Emissions Researchers from MIT and the University of Cambridge in the UK have released a study that attributes about 8,000 premature deaths to emissions from airplanes at cruise altitudes. Landing and
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New Map Shows Air Pollution Throughout the World
Scientists have long known about the life-threatening impact of air pollution -- but up until now, tracking it globally with any accuracy had been out of reach. With new satellite-based imaging, however, researchers are getting their
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The Week in Pictures: Italian Renewable Energy Exec Arrested for Mafia Ties, 90% of Kuwait's Coral Reefs Have Mysteriously Died, and More (Slideshow)
It didn't take long for new developments to surface about the Italian Mafia infiltrating the renewable energy industry: Police officers have arrested a renewable energy exec and seized 1.5 billion euros worth of assets, because of alleged mafia ties.
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New York City to Ban Smoking in Parks & Beaches
New York City's mayor, Michael Bloomberg, has just acted to extend the ban on smoking in restaurants and bars to two other highly trafficked destinations: parks and beaches. He cites the adverse health
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The U.S. Clean Air Act is 40! Happy Birthday!
Photo: Flickr, CC Time Flies When You're Cleaning the Air The Clean Air Act was signed by President Richard Nixon on December 31, 1970, and so it is 40 this year. To celebrate, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is looking back at the past
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Like a Good Neighbor, the Clean Air Act is There
Since 1970, the Clean Air Act has been the EPA's most effective tool for combating air pollution. When it was first enacted, the Clean Air Act only covered five pollutants. But over the last 40 years it has been amended to protect the public from
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With Light Rail Stalled, A Push for BRT in Tel Aviv
After a decade of fits and starts, the Tel Aviv light rail project finally collapsed last week. Following months of last-ditch negotiations, government officials announced that
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Don't Miss the Weekend Without Oil August 21 & 22!
If you prefer to walk or bike instead of using a car, enjoy being outside, use reusable bags, avoid plastic bottles, eat meat sparingly or not at all, research makeup and cosmetic products for safety, carry a refillable water bottle, and generally
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LEED Buildings: Is the 'Green' All In Your Head?
There's nothing like conflicting information to give you a headache. Or maybe it's the building where I work, a structure built in the 1970s. According to a Michigan State University
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Weekend Without Oil To Help Teens Reduce Consumption
We've been focused on educating people about reducing their oil consumption (see our Minus Oil series), so when we heard from DoSomething about their Weekend Without Oil it was as if the idea had
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Stop Eating Fossil Fuels, Start Eating Food
Michael Pollan says that if you eat a typical American diet, you are made of corn. Dale Allen Pfeiffer takes it one step further, and says We are Eating Fossil Fuels. (Actually, Jaymi points out that Michael Pollan says that too.)
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Air-Purifying Road Surface Eats 45% of NOx Pollution
Photo: Flickr, CCNOx, NOM NOM NOMResearchers at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands have tested pollution-eating concrete on about 1,000 square meters of roads in the town of Hengelo. We already knew it worked in the lab, but
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Hyper-Invasive Kudzu Worsens Ozone Levels, Air Pollution
Just as much of the US east of Appalachia is in the midst of a serious heat wave comes word that kudzu--that hyper-invasive vine that can grow up to seven feet a week and will cover everything in its
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German Government Proposes Eco-tax on Air Travel
Everyone knows by now that the European member states have started a belt-tightening kick. Germany's Chancellor Merkel has presented an austerity plan that includes an eco-tax on air travel. And the air is already heating up:
