NASA Tracks Carbon Monoxide from California Wildfires As It Drifts East
California is being plagued by massive wildfires, and the effects on air quality from those fires can extend far beyond the state’s borders. In addition…
California is being plagued by massive wildfires, and the effects on air quality from those fires can extend far beyond the state’s borders. In addition…
In 2015, around 4.5 million people died prematurely from diseases attributed to ambient air pollution, including 237,000 children under the age of five from respiratory…
A new study from the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) reveals that Chinese mothers who were exposed to a high level of certain air…
Chemists from Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) have found out how stubborn pollutants in water can be disintegrated easily and cost-effectively. To do so researchers…
Scientists at the University of Dundee have discovered that E. coli bacteria could hold the key to an efficient method of capturing and storing or…
The air we breathe contains particulate matter from a range of natural and human-related sources. Particulate matter is responsible for thousands of premature deaths in…
A new study from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health reveals that short-term exposures to fine particulate air pollution and ozone–even at levels…
NASA’s new global view of carbon dioxide builds on the agency’s previous satellite measurements of carbon dioxide and combines them with a sophisticated Earth system…
Scientists at MIT have developed a new catalyst material that provides design principles for producing fuels from carbon dioxide emissions. The findings suggest a route…
Researchers from MIT have found a way to make pesticides stick to leaves instead of bouncing off, helping to reduce runoff pollution. When farmers spray…
By using nanoparticles filled with enzymes, researchers from UCLA have developed a safer and faster way to remove pollutants from water. A team of researchers…
A new analysis from MIT provides more accurate estimates of sources of mercury emissions from around the world, revealing that Asia produces twice as much…
A newly published study reveals that a combination of naturally occurring atmospheric processes and pollutants crossing the Pacific Ocean from China have offset the reduction…
A new space-based instrument that will monitor major air pollutants across North America on an hourly basis has successfully completed a critical review by NASA….
A newly published study from NASA shows that Earth’s atmosphere contains an unexpectedly large amount of Carbon tetrachloride (CCl4), leaving researchers to believe that there…
New research from scientists at the University of East Anglia reveals four new man-made gases in the atmosphere that are contributing to the destruction of…
By using swimming microengines, researchers from the Max Planck Institute have developed a new method for the active degradation of organic pollutants that is twelve…
A newly published study reveals that human-caused outdoor air pollution results in over two million deaths per year. In addition, while it has been suggested…