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A person cooks over campfire in Bhutan. About 2.4 billion people in the developing world lack access to "clean cooking." Universal Images Group via Getty Images Some 2.4 billion people cook on wood and charcoal fire pits or kerosene stoves. This accounts for 2% of global greenhouse gas emissions and harms forests and public health. […]
Enlarge / Acting Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency EPA Andrew Wheeler listens as President Donald J. Trump leads a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House on July 18, 2018, in Washington, DC. (credit: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images) Polluters likely had a good year in 2018. […]
Meeting climate targets set in Paris in 2015 would significantly reduce air pollution, a World Health Organization report released at the climate change summit in Poland says.
There’s little doubt that air quality has generally improved in the US in recent decades, but quantifying that improvement has been difficult. However, a recently published University of North Carolina study might have produced a more tangible figure. The NASA- and EPA-backed report determined that American deaths from air pollution dropped by 47 percent between […]
App that shows the equivalent number of cigarettes you “smoke” a day by simply breathing in polluted air in your local area may not be applicable to wildfire smoke.
App that shows the equivalent number of cigarettes you “smoke” a day by simply breathing in polluted air in your local area may not be applicable to wildfire smoke.
REUTERS/Brian Snyder President Donald Trump‘s administration has released its new plan to regulate carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants. The Affordable Clean Energy rule would impose looser regulations than former President Barack Obama’s proposed Clean Power Plan. According to an EPA analysis, Trump’s new rules could cause up to 1,400 premature deaths annually by 2030. President Donald […]
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The 92-year-old said in a new, short online film: “We hoped that Blue Planet II would open people’s eyes to the damage that we are doing to our oceans and the creatures that live in them. “I’ve been absolutely astonished at the result that that programme has had. I never imagined there would be quite […]
Enlarge (credit: Johny SYSEL via Wikimedia Commons) Buried beneath the snow on Greenland’s surface, ancient layers of ice hold deposits of lead that originated at mines and foundries in ancient Rome. Fluctuations in the amount of ancient lead pollution that reached Greenland turn out to be a remarkably accurate way to trace the economic impact […]
