A British engineer based in Beijing captured on film a cloud of smog descending on the Chinese capital. The video clip, posted by Chas Pope Sunday on Twitter, shows a busy urban neighborhood being engulfed in air pollution during a 20 minute span. The past few weeks have been especially bad in Beijing, according to […]
Environmental officials in China‘s northern city of Xi’an have been detained for altering air quality monitoring results in order to avoid penalties for high pollution in their area. Lu Guang / Greenpeace According to media reports, five officials—including He Limin, the chief of the Environmental Protection Bureau for the city—were arrested for their involvement in […]
The UN Economic Commission for Europe and World Coal Association are holding an event today and Thursday to tout the idea that coal is a cure for poverty. Sound off to you? There’s a good reason for that. A group of more than a dozen international organizations lead by the Overseas Development Institute have put […]
A Dutch tech startup called Envinity Group has unveiled a giant outdoor vacuum cleaner designed to filter the tiniest toxic specks from the atmosphere. Dutch unveil giant vacuum to clean outside air https://t.co/qjn7gKgLx0 pic.twitter.com/lx98zRAspb — Hindustan Times (@htTweets) October 26, 2016 The invention was presented at the Offshore Energy trade fair in Amsterdam on Tuesday. […]
More than 650,000 kindergarten through 12th grade children in nine states attend school within one mile of a fracked oil or gas well, putting them at increased risk of health impacts from dangerous chemicals and air pollution. Moms Clean Air Force The finding comes from a new study by Environment America Research & Policy Center […]
By Jamie Smith Hopkins To see one of the country’s largest coal-fired power plants, head northwest from this Ohio River city. Or east, because there’s another in the region. In fact, nearly every direction you go will take you to a coal plant—seven within 30 miles. Collectively, they pump out millions of pounds of toxic […]
By Nadia Prupis More than 90 percent of people on the planet live in places where air pollution levels are dangerously high, and millions of people are dying as a result of the exposure, according to new research from the World Health Organization (WHO) released Tuesday. A polluted Christmas Day at Anyang Normal University, China.V.T. […]
Exposure to poor air quality inside and outside is the world’s fourth-leading threat to human health. A first-of-its-kind International Energy Agency (IEA) study released Monday reported 6.5 million deaths globally are attributed to poor air quality. The only items more of a threat to human health than poor air quality are high blood pressure, dietary […]
In new estimates released Tuesday, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported about 7 million people died as a result of air pollution exposure in 2012. Low- and middle-income countries in the WHO South-East Asia and Western Pacific Regions had the largest air pollution-related burden in 2012, with a total of 3.3 million deaths linked to […]
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