Whether Powered By Electrons Or Molecules, Automobiles Are A Curse
Electric automobiles are all well and good but don’t address the problem of too many cars and trucks clogging our roads and cities.
Pollution
Air Pollution Hides Increases in Rainfall
For much of the last century, the drying effect of aerosols has masked increases in rainfall from greenhouse gases — but as aerosol emissions diminish, average and extreme rains may ramp up Key Takeaways In a new study, researchers broke down how human-induced greenhouse gas and aerosol emissions influence rainfall … [continued]
Chemical Pollution Victims’ Voices Ignored for a European Industrial Deal
The Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo, representing the nation’s Presidency of the EU Council, is hosting an industry summit tomorrow in collaboration with the European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC) and its Belgian industry member association Essenscia at the port of Antwerp. This summit, attended by big businesses’ CEOs and … [continued]
EU Parliament Votes For Cleaner Air, But WHO Alignment is Delayed
Reaction to MEPs’ vote on the Ambient Air Quality Directive by T&E, European Environmental Bureau, AirClim, the European Respiratory Society, and ClientEarth.
Air Pollution & Its Threat To Health Are Unequally Spread Throughout The World
Particulate air pollution remains the world’s greatest external risk to human health, but most of its impact on global life expectancy is concentrated in just six countries. At the same time, the countries that are currently most impacted by air pollution lack the fundamental tools that have facilitated previous improvements in air quality.
TEMPO Instrument Captures Its First Images Of Air Pollution Over Greater North America
TEMPO is the first space-based probe to measure air pollution hourly over North America at neighborhood scale.
NOAA & NASA Spearheading Massive Air Quality Research Campaign This Summer
Scientists from NOAA, NASA and 21 universities from three countries are deploying state-of-the-art instruments in multiple, coordinated research campaigns this month to investigate how air pollution sources have shifted over recent decades. Since the 1970s, U.S. scientists and environmental regulators made significant strides in reducing air pollution by cleaning up … [continued]
Physicians: It’s Crucial To Address Gas Stove Emissions
There are many things in human society that we don’t realize are harming us for a long time, and then once we realize it, they are such a common element of our lives that we have a hard time changing them. We’ve got some obvious examples of this, like smoking, … [continued]
Europe’s Luxury Cruise Ships Emit As Much Toxic Sulphur As 1 Billion Cars — Study
Cruise ship pollution around ports higher than pre-pandemic levels, but air pollutants from cruise ships fell 80% in Venice following the city’s ban on large ships
Marine Environment At Risk Due to Ship Emissions
According to a recent study conducted by Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, the collective release of metals and other environmentally harmful substances by ships poses a significant threat to the marine ecosystem. The researchers assessed the pollution levels caused by these emissions in four ports and discovered that over … [continued]
