For more than a century, American cities have been sliced and diced by high-traffic roadways. Interstate highways and wide arterials...
Stricter environmental norms and fossil fuel pollution call for cleaner fuels such as biodiesel. This vegetable oil- or animal fat-based...
Growing calls for the world to come to grips with the many ways that global warming affects human health have...
Air pollution particles from coal-fired power plants are more harmful to human health than many experts realized, and it’s more...
Scleractinian corals, or hard corals, have been disappearing globally over the past four decades, a result of climate change, pollution,...
In a unique study, published in the journal Environmental Pollution,the ability of “shrimp-like” creatures to reproduce successfully was found to...
It is possible for corruption to lead to better environmental efficiency and improved economy in developing countries, according to a...
In 1991, the University of Utah Fly’s Eye experiment detected the highest-energy cosmic ray ever observed. Later dubbed the Oh-My-God...
Exposure to fine particulate air pollutants from coal-fired power plants (coal PM2.5) is associated with a risk of mortality more...
Reducing pollution from aerosol particles would improve air quality. It could also increase the amount of sunlight accessible to plants—enhancing...
Experts are calling on global leaders to implement climate mitigation actions that could prevent millions of premature deaths worldwide each...
by Tilo Arnhold, Leibniz-Institut für Troposphärenforschung e. V. The extent to which aerosol particles affect the climate depends on how...
