Tag: Air pollution
Walmart tried to make sustainability affordable. Here’s what happened
Andrew Spicer, University of South Carolina and David Graham Hyatt, University of Arkansas
What a difference the birth of a granddaughter can make.
For Lee...
Ozone pollution in US national parks is nearly the same as...
David Keiser, Iowa State University; Gabriel E. Lade, Iowa State University, and Ivan Rudik, Cornell University
“Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the...
Why the EPA’s ‘secret science’ proposal alarms public health experts
Bernard Goldstein, University of Pittsburgh
Later this month, the EPA could finalize a controversial rule to limit what scientific research the agency can use in...
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....
EXPLORING NATURE
From ancient texts to modern practices, Daoism provides a profound framework...
Michael Naparstek, University of Tennessee
Daoism, China’s indigenous religion, is one of the country’s five officially recognized religions today....
