Air Quality
The transportation industry is one of the most polluting industries contributing to air pollution around the world as well as adding greenhouse gases into...
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The transportation industry is one of the most polluting industries contributing to air pollution around the world as well as adding greenhouse gases into...
In the face of dangerous heat waves this summer, Americans have taken shelter in air conditioned cooling centers. Normally, that would be a wise choice, but during...
Surface melt in Greenland's southwest is causing the ice sheet to melt faster than previously thought.
Batteries are the key to the zero carbon future, there’s little argument about that. But today’s batteries are less than ideal in many respects....
A team of scientists from Germany and the United States has determined that rising temperatures due to climate change will have a dramatic impact...
A new study conducted by an international research group has raised the question of what happens when too many wind turbines begin affecting the...
Rain and snow have graced the West recently, causing many residents to breathe a sigh of relief about possible easing of the severe drought conditions...
A longer version of this article, with commentary, was released in one of our sister publications, Planetsave, on Sunday, July 27. Scientific American has...
Originally published on Planetsave. Turns out that just about everyone (including President Obama) has been hugely underestimating the methane pollution levels of so-called “clean...
Meta-materials (MM: materials beyond the imagination) have been largely confined to tricks in the lab because the required components of silver and gold are...
University of Utah biologist Jim Ehleringer and colleagues at Harvard developed a new method to estimate carbon dioxide emissions and thus verify compliance with...