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That's a lot of CO2.
Back in the day when Chicago and Pittsburg were the world's Beijing and New Delhi.
It's called "clean" energy for a reason.
The Arctic is screwed.
The author wishes this photo 'didn't exist'.
Everything is bigger in Texas -- floods and pollution included.
If you're expecting, taking some time to visit some more pristine areas of the world might do wonders to your baby's health in the long run.
Stuck in traffic? I've got some bad news...
It changes their genes.
Styrofoam needs to go!
Things are not looking good.
Not good.
A step in the right direction.
In Beijing and other municipalities, all taxi drivers will be forced to gradually switch to electric.
The announcement comes after a disastrous couple of months for London in terms of air quality.
You can flush as many of these babies as you like.
Nowhere on Earth is safe from humanity's impact.
Londoners are warned not to engage in any strenuous physical activity as Britain's capital battles rough pollution.
As we previously reported, China is experiencing a dramatic smog crisis - again.
A mutant success story.
Maybe VW shouldn't have cheated on their emissions tests.
Unprecedented levels of smog pollution in Iran's capital have killed over 400 people.
China has been making great progress, but there's still a ways to go.
Their previous plans to clean the air were ruled to fall illegally short of the mark.
Canned air looking more and more like a brilliant idea.
Canned air doesn't seem like such a publicity stunt now, does it?
Tiny pollution particles have been discovered in brain samples, a finding described as "dreadfully shocking" by researchers.
The organization takes improving air quality "extremely seriously," and has thus decided to clamp down on diesel vehicles.
Wear it on your fingers, not in your lungs.
The company has chosen to award the shoes via a raffle system on Instagram
According to the most comprehensive set of data, almost no diesel cars respect pollution limits.
The Environmental Defense Fund’s Oil and Gas program has released a new nation-wide report of the most common sites of methane leaks at oil and gas pads. Surprisingly, most of the leaks were traced back to faulty piping, vents or doors on gas tanks in newer, not older, wells.
A laboratory study on rats found that the animals that breathed Beijing's notoriously polluted air gained weight and showed sighs of cardio-respiratory and metabolic dysfunctions after three to eight weeks of exposure.
In late 2015, Volkswagen (VW) admitted to cheating on US tests to make its diesel cars seem more green than they actually were.
The city of London is sued for polluting too much – about 40 times more than it should under EU (European Union) regulation. At 7AM local time last Friday, London officially breached the pollution limits set by the European Union for the entirety of 2016. It’s the fifth year in a row London has grossly surpassed […]
The two largest cities in Italy have taken drastic measures as pollution levels continue to rise and smog builds up.
Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have never been higher: the average global CO2 levels have reached the 400 parts per million (ppm) milestone in the spring of 2015, The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) announced in the first week of November. Secretary-General Michel Jarraud warns that it won't be long before even higher levels of the gas become a "permanent reality."
According to recently released data from Chinese authorities, the country is burning out even more than previously thought
The European Union, generally considered the world's 3rd biggest emitter after China and the US, reported that its emissions fell by 4 percent last year.
Americans are sending much more trash to landfills than federal agencies estimated - twice as much, according to a new study.
Eight trillion microbeads are polluting the US waters every day. As the plastic beads are very small, they breach through the water filtration systems, affecting wildlife and ultimately, humans. The main culprit for this microbead invasion is the cosmetics industry, where the particles are used as exfoliating agents and in toothpastes.
Aaah, the ocean. The true final frontier. Full of wonderful and exciting things, such as strange fish, stranger crustaceans, beautiful hydrothermal vents, and lovely, ever-growing garbage patches.
China - the world's most populous country and the world's top polluter has a lot of responsibility on its shoulders. China gets a lot of well deserved flak for its often unsustainable ways, but according to a new study, at least some of the flak is undeserved. China's emissions have been overestimated, according to a study published in Nature.
We all know that pollution and smog in China is pretty bad, but China has only recently published their air quality data - so we get to know just how bad it is. According to a new study published by Berkeley Earth, smog alone kills 4,000 people in China every day; that's 17% of all premature fatalities.
New research shows that wastewater discharged from wastewater treatment plants in the Grand River watershed of southern Ontario has the potential to contaminate sources of drinking water with drugs such as cocaine, morphine and oxycodone.
Dolphins in European waters are struggling to reproduce because of the chemical pollution that lingers in their bodies for a very long time - even for their entire lifetime. Scientists were surprised to find polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in their bodies, as PCBs have been banned 30 years ago.
They say that one man’s trash is another man’s gold, but artist Alejandro Duran gave a whole new meaning to that saying. Walking along the coastline in Sian Ka’an, Mexico’s largest federally-protected reserve, he collects many bits of trash that wash up on the coast from all over the world and uses them for site site-specific installations for an ongoing […]
Paris authorities have put in place 24-hour emergency measures to limit the number of cars in traffic as part of their efforts to fight the smog shrouding the city. Today (Monday, March 23) all cars with number plates that end with an even number will be banned from circulating in the Paris region, unless they're carrying 3 or more passengers. Clean cars will also be allowed.
When she was pregnant, former Chinese news anchor Chai Jing got some tragic news - her unborn daughter was diagnosed with a tumour. She immediately quit her job, and soon started working on a documentary focusing on China's pollution problem (especially smog). Now, her self-financed documentary, for which she paid $200,000 took the country by storm, with 75 million hits on the day it was released on Chinese video streaming sites and over 250 million views now.
When we're talking about CO2 emissions and global warming, we generally mean atmospheric CO2 - where the gas is spewed and generates the greenhouse effect, warming our atmosphere and subsequently, our planet. But a new study conducted by US researchers found that CO2 actually warms the Earth's crust directly; the more CO2 we emit, the hotter our planet will get.
