Face masks available to consumers in China for protection against air pollution vary widely in their real-world performance, suggests a recent study.
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Can California's Carbon Queen Recycle Pollution?
If tickets to Mars were on sale, Etosha Cave would be the first in line — and she’d prefer a one-way trip, thank you. “If you want to be an explorer, you go out there and make it your home,” she says. Cave’s personal moonshot is metamorphosing environment-polluting carbon dioxide into useful products like petroleum. […]
The EPA’s Pollution Estimates Stink. Everyone Uses Them Anyway
And low-balling isn’t limited to toxic chemicals. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a78f4541288b22685446232/master/pass/refineryemissions-896009340.jpg
As China gets tough on pollution, will its economy suffer?
LEO YAO thought he had nothing to fear from the environment ministry. Before, when its inspectors visited his cutlery factory, he says, they generated “loud thunder, little rain”. After warning him to clean up, they would, at worst, impose a negligible fine. Not so this time. In August dozens of inspectors swarmed over his workshop […]
As China gets tough on pollution, will its economy suffer?
LEO YAO thought he had nothing to fear from the environment ministry. Before, when its inspectors visited his cutlery factory, he says, they generated “loud thunder, little rain”. After warning him to clean up, they would, at worst, impose a negligible fine. Not so this time. In August dozens of inspectors swarmed over his workshop […]
German govt to invest €1bn in lowering air pollution
Published time: 28 Nov, 2017 14:25 Edited time: 28 Nov, 2017 14:26 German Chancellor Angela Merkel says the federal government will provide €1 billion to cities and towns across the country in 2018. The move is part of efforts to make traffic more environmentally friendly. The funds are to be invested among other things into […]
Officials confirm ‘high pollution’ after spike in radioactivity in Urals, say no health risk
The Russian meteorological service confirmed “extremely high pollution” in the Urals in October after a spike in radioactive isotope ruthenium-106 levels. There is no health risk for the local population, authorities stressed. “Probes of radioactive aerosols from monitoring stations in Argayash and Novogorny [villages in Russia’s Chelyabinsk Region in the Urals] contained radioisotope Ru-106” in the […]
Crimson tide: Pollution turns sea waters red in Italian city (PHOTOS)
Bay water has turned red in an Italian port city, due to alarming rates of industrial pollution. Local activists are desperately appealing to the Italian government for help. “Look at these pictures, gentlemen of the government of ‘this’ Italy, and be ashamed,” a group of activist from the southern Italian port of Taranto wrote in […]
These photos of pollution in Delhi reveal why authorities are calling the city a ‘gas chamber’
Saumya Khandelwal – Reuters Don’t walk. Don’t go to school. Don’t breathe too fast. That’s just some of the advice from authorities in Delhi, India this past week, when the smog became so thick that is was described by the local government as a “gas chamber.” Last November, the city experienced some of its worst pollution in decades, and this year looks […]
‘Pollution season on’: Smog shrouds Beijing & suburbs, causes roads closures (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
Published time: 27 Oct, 2017 08:26 Authorities have issued a yellow smog alert in and around the Chinese capital Beijing, as dense fog caused road closures in the country. People have taken to social media, posting pictures of blanketed sites and of themselves wearing masks. On Friday, air pollution levels in Chinese cities, including Beijing, […]
