Tag: pollution

City smog significantly lowers children's IQ, while also raising the risk for Alzheimers disease. A new study has found that ...

A few days ago we were telling you about a study which quantified the amount of plastic in the Earth's ...

We all know that our oceans are polluted, and one of the biggest problems is plastic pollution. But few people ...

Not all boreholes are the same - scientists using mobile equipment measured how many gaseous compounds are emitted by the extraction ...

Owing to its mass deployment of coal burning plants and the  7.4 million cars that fill its roads, Delhi now ...

Image via Gizmodo / Cloud Collective. Cloud Collective, a French and Dutch design company has come up with an elegant ...

Dr. Michael Honeycutt, the top toxicologist in the state of Texas argued that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shouldn't tighten ...

A trio of newly published studies showed once again that natural gas is not a clean energy bridge - the studies ...

Factories in China. Image via Wiki Commons. Despite significant steps towards a more sustainable future, China is still the world's ...

This year has been full of encouraging news from China - apparently, they're committed to their war on pollution, and ...

Scientists have finished analyzing water samples taken from 12 oceanographic cruises from the past 8 years. Among other startling discoveries, ...

Scientists have found a way to transform cigarette buds into a material which stores energy cheap and efficiently. The material ...

The Arctic ocean likely holds trillions of pieces of plastic in ice; as global warming starts to tick in and ...

Photo: Wikicommons Can you put a cost on pollution? Policy makers, not matter how some may deny it, are more ...

The Chinese government sort of took everyone by surprise after it made a most unaccustomed  statement; it admitted the country ...

While pollution is most felt locally, where its produced, some of it eventually winds up in remote locations proving to ...

While some governments may be more environmentally conscious and apply strict environmental policies, others are not. It's important, however, that ...

An e-waste dump in Nigeria. Some 50 million tones of hazardous e-waste, various electronics that have long met their life ...

(C) Noyle Indonesia's Java is one of the world's top surfing destinations, as well as a marvelous casual vacation spot, famed ...

A new study stresses the overlooked hazards that dumped pharmaceuticals found in wastewater pose to the world's freshwater streams. So ...

Based on a massive set of data collected from Houston by Rice University researchers, there is a direct correlation between ...

A few days ago I was telling you about the drastic state of pollution taking place in China these days ...

Canada's oil production has been blooming lately, mostly due to the oil sands in Alberta, who hold some of the ...

When you think of air pollution, inevitably your mind wanders to huge, fume spilling power stations, old motor trucks and ...

Carnivorous plants may soon have to give up their meaty habits and turn veggie, as a recent study found that ...

Besides ever thinning ice, permafrost melting, soot deposits, habitat loss, you might as well add another significant factor threatening the ...

According to a new report released by the Chinese authorities, global warming "threatens China's march to prosperity by cutting crops, ...

In the first study of its kind, a group of researchers have quantified the financial impact of climate-change infused natural ...

Recent figures published in a report prepared by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre and PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency ...

Recently, China's Yellow Sea has been clogged for a surface of nearly 7,700 square miles (20,000 square kilometers) by a ...

According to a new study released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),  tiny solid and liquid particles in ...

It's pretty evident for anyone living in a big, crowded city what pollution looks like and to what degree our ...

The river Ganges has literally been at the center of Indian life for thousands of years, both socially and spiritually. ...

Pollution can take numerous and unexpected shapes; one of the not-so-deadly, but still extremely unpleasant types is noise pollution. You ...

A week before the UN Copenhagen climate summit, a disheartening new study conducted by scientists from University of Exeter in ...

To be quite honest, I was never really fond of the man, but ever since he quit his executive positions ...

I was surprised to talk to a bunch of people today and find out they didn't know about this, so ...

Mankind is screwing up. I'm sorry, that's just the way it is. Not taking care of our natural resources, polluting ...

Most of the talk about global warming revolves around carbon dioxide, sometimes giving the false impression that it alone is ...

Technology has developed so much in these years that scientists are finding more and more brilliant ways to clear out ...

Some places in the world are just like heaven, some are just like hell; almost literally. Human activity can sometimes ...

Photo by Stefan Everybody (or almost everybody) believes that no matter what, USA remains "polluter no. 1". Don't take my ...

A recent study has shown that certain types of air pollution can actually help by creating extra doses of atmospheric ...

Despite of the all the efforts (which by the way, are not as numerous as you may think) which have ...