Tag: Air pollution
Your shampoo, hair spray and skin lotion may be polluting the...
Matthew Coggon, University of Colorado
Millions of Americans apply personal care products every morning before heading to work or school. But these products don’t stick...
Lava, ash flows, mudslides and nasty gases: Good reasons to respect...
Brittany Brand, Boise State University
Volcanoes are beautiful and awe-inspiring, but the ongoing eruption of Kilauea on Hawaii’s Big Island is showing how dangerous these...
Another problem with China’s coal: Mercury in rice
Noelle Eckley Selin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Sae Yun Kwon, Pohang University of Science and Technology
Mercury pollution is a problem usually associated with...
Garbage in, garbage out: Incinerating trash is not an effective way...
Ana Baptista, The New School
U.S. cities have been burning municipal solid waste since the 1880s. For the first century, it was a way to...
Mercury from industrialized nations is polluting the Arctic – here’s how...
Daniel Obrist, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Scientists have long understood that the Arctic is affected by mercury pollution, but know less about how it happens....
Exposure to wildfire smoke: 5 questions answered
Richard E. Peltier, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Editor’s note: Wildfires once again are raging in California – this time in the Los Angeles area, where...
Why Rick Perry’s proposed subsidies for coal fail Economics 101
Meredith Fowlie, University of California, Berkeley and Maximilian Auffhammer, University of California, Berkeley
In a controversial proposal, Energy Secretary Rick Perry has asked federal regulators...
Court ruling is a first step toward controlling air pollution from...
Martin C. Heller, University of Michigan; JB Ruhl, Vanderbilt University, and Sacoby Wilson, University of Maryland
Editor’s note: Most livestock farming in industrialized...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
