In what may seem like a strange twist on global warming and greenhouse gas effects, Harvard researchers discovered that particulate pollution created a “warming hole” where the effects of global warming and greenhouse gases were temporarily obscured. Climate scientists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have discovered that particulate pollution in [...]

Anyone that has every taken a bike ride, jogged or walked along a busy street knows how bad the air feels and smells and has probably had second thoughts about doing it again. Now a new study from MIT confirms what many people have thought, emissions from cars, trucks, planes and power plants are bad [...]

As population grows and consumption increases, so does waste and pollution. Scientists have been working on a way to better track and understand how pollution will affect wildlife and human health and have created glowing zebrafish to help with that process. Understanding the damage that pollution causes to both wildlife and human health is set [...]

Natural gas, which is often perceived as a clean alternative to coal and oil, can be advantageous since it produces fewer greenhouse-gas emissions than other fossil fuels. This was one of the reasons why there was a large scale shift to natural gas in the 1990s. However, to release the gas, engineers must split rock [...]

Last year, surfers were surprised at the amount of stinging moon jellyfish, some of which reached the size of bicycle wheels, which washed towards shore in Florida. The swarms of blobs grew so quickly that they forced a Florida nuclear plant to shut down temporarily because operators were concerned that the jellies would clog its [...]

A team of researchers comprised of climate modelers, marine conservationists, ocean chemists, biologists, and ecologists published their recent research into ocean acidity in the January 22 online issue of Nature Climate Change. Using computer models with observations, the researchers concluded that anthropogenic CO2 emissions over the last 100 to 200 years have raised ocean acidity [...]

Researchers at the University of Leeds, in collaboration with the University of York, published a new study showing the extent of the Northern Hemisphere’s intercontinental crop losses caused by ozone. The study goes on to state that while pollution from Europe still remains the biggest contributor to its wheat crop loss (3.5 million tons a [...]

Whether global warming is really occurring or these temperatures are cyclical, it’s best to keep coal use down as it is terrible for the environment. We need to stop arguing about why and stop using coal. It produces more CO2 per unit of energy than other mainstream energy source and it is also the main [...]

London has had an air quality problem for a long time and now they may have found a way to combat air pollution. They are not going after the sources, but rather trying to capture the pollution by spreading “pollution glue” or calcium magnesium acetate on the city’s roads. It’s a novel idea that just [...]

Da Vinci’s famous painting “The Last Supper” has managed to survive to this day, though it has faced its share of threats for centuries. (Surviving a bombing during World War II for example) Today it faces a silent, but deadly modern enemy. Air Pollution from one of Europe’s most polluted cities, Milan. The painting is [...]