Tag: Air pollution
Heart attacks, cancer, dementia, premature deaths: 4 essential reads on the...
Jennifer Weeks, The Conversation
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced a new standard for protecting the public from...
Pollution from coal power plants contributes to far more deaths than...
Lucas Henneman, George Mason University
Air pollution particles from coal-fired power plants are more harmful to human health than...
To see how smoke affects endangered orangutans, we studied their voices...
Wendy M. Erb, Cornell University
Bornean orangutans are one of three orangutan species, all critically endangered. They thrive in...
It’s not just climate – we’ve already breached most of the...
Steven J Lade, Australian National University; Ben Stewart-Koster, Griffith University; Stuart Bunn, Griffith University; Syezlin Hasan, Griffith University, and Xuemei Bai, Australian...
Body lotions, mothballs, cleaning fluids and other widely used products contain...
Robin Dodson, Boston University; Megan R. Schwarzman, University of California, Berkeley, and Ruthann Rudel, Northeastern University
The Research Brief...
Lung cancer rates have decreased for the Marlboro Man, but have...
Estelamari Rodriguez, University of Miami
When many people think of an average lung cancer patient, they often imagine an...
Homes that survived the Boulder County fire hid another disaster inside...
Colleen E. Reid, University of Colorado Boulder; Joost de Gouw, University of Colorado Boulder, and Michael Hannigan, University of Colorado Boulder
Air pollution harms the brain and mental health, too – a...
Clara G. Zundel, Wayne State University
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
