Tag: pollution
How Taiwan uses Buddhist literature for environmental education
Natasha Heller, University of Virginia
Climate change is one of the biggest challenges that the world faces. A United Nations report has cautioned that greenhouse...
Secondhand clothing sales are booming – and may help solve the...
Hyejune Park, Oklahoma State University and Cosette Marie Joyner Armstrong, Oklahoma State University
A massive force is reshaping the fashion industry: secondhand clothing. According to...
Days with both extreme heat and extreme air pollution are becoming...
Yangyang Xu, Texas A&M University and Xiaohui Xu, Texas A&M University
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What Islamic hygienic practices can teach when coronavirus is spreading
Rose S. Aslan, California Lutheran University
As outbreaks of the coronavirus spread throughout the world, people are reminded over and again to limit physical contact,...
The secondhand smoke you’re breathing may have come from another state
Sebastian Eastham, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Steven Barrett, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Scientists estimate that each year in the U.S., outdoor air pollution shortens...
From their balloons, the first aeronauts transformed our view of the...
Jennifer Tucker, Wesleyan University
Near the beginning of the new film “The Aeronauts,” a giant gas-filled balloon called the “Mammoth” departs from London’s Vauxhall Gardens...
Fossil fuels are bad for your health and harmful in many...
Noel Healy, Salem State University; Jennie C. Stephens, Northeastern University, and Stephanie Malin, Colorado State University
Many Democratic lawmakers aim to pass a Green New...
What’s the value of a clean beach? Here’s how economists do...
Timothy Haab, The Ohio State University
Millions of Americans head outdoors in the summer, whether for a day at a nearby lake or a monthlong...
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...
