Tag: Air pollution
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...
How the 19th-century rebuilding of Britain’s Houses of Parliament made air...
<span><a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/timothy-hyde-332059">Timothy Hyde</a>, <em><a href="http://theconversation.com/institutions/massachusetts-institute-of-technology-1193">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</a></em></span>
<p>Impressionist painter Claude Monet was able to see beauty in the swirl of fog encompassing Britain’s Houses...
EXPLORING NATURE
Geothermal energy has huge potential to generate clean power – including...
Moones Alamooti, University of North Dakota
As energy use rises and the planet warms, you might have dreamed of...
