Hot or cold, rural residents more vulnerable to extreme temperatures
A study in China's Zheijiang Province shows that people in China's rural communities are more vulnerable to both hot and ...
Tag: Pollution/Remediation
No silver bullet for helping the Great Barrier Reef
Improving water quality can help the Great Barrier Reef, but won't suffice to rescue itCredit: Tane Sinclair-Taylor Recent flooding and ...
A tale of two cities: Is air pollution improving in Paris and London?
Credit: King's College London and Airparif For the first time, a joint air pollution study across two mega-cities - London ...
Air pollution may impact fetal cardiovascular system, Rutgers study says
Exposure to ultrafine particulates, the smallest particles in air pollution, restricts blood flow and nutrients to the uterus Microscopic particles ...
North Texas Regional Center of Expertise gets approval from UN
New centerCredit: UT Arlington What began as a brainstorming session last year about how to unify sustainability efforts across North ...
Vitamin D may protect against pollution-associated asthma symptoms in obese children
Credit: NIEHS A new study finds vitamin D may be protective among asthmatic obese children living in urban environments with ...
NASA finds wind shear adversely affecting Haleh
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Visible imagery from NASA's Terra satellite revealed northerly ...
David versus Goliath: the fight against environmental crimes
The world of ecological trialsCredit: Ernest Prat i Rieradevall "What? The river looks like milk?" is the hard-hitting sentence that ...
Canairy app tracks outdoor workers’ exposure to air pollution
A new app launched today by King's College London and the British Safety Council provides outdoor workers, and their employers, ...
Shifting away from coal is key to cutting greenhouse gas emissions, PSU study finds
The United States could fulfill its greenhouse gas emission pledge under the Paris Climate Agreement by virtually eliminating coal as ...
Zero-emission diesel combustion using a non-equilibrium-plasma-assisted MnO2 filter
Credit: Kanazawa University Diesel engines are widely used in agricultural machinery, vehicles, and ships because of their high thermal efficiency. ...
A ‘Post-Antibiotic World?’
Antibiotic resistance is spreading from wastewater treatment plants The products of wastewater treatment have been found to contain trace amounts ...
Analysis of billions of Wikipedia searches reveals biodiversity secrets
This finding, publishing March 5 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology, suggests new ways to monitor changes in the world's ...
NREL pioneers cleaner route to upcycle plastics into superior products
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have discovered a method of plastics upcycling--transforming discarded ...