Interventions to Reduce Biomass Pollution Lead to Significant Public Heath Gains
Researchers are discovering that male deaths from cardiovascular and respiratory diseases originating from biomass smoke are on the rise. This information may have a...
Venezuela’s 5 Cents/Gallon Gasoline Prices Could Go Up. Good News or Bad News?
Venezuela, like much of South America, has vast underground riches in the form of petroleum and mineral reserves. Gasoline prices are, for lack of...
Nuclear Waste from Bomb Production Contaminating Groundwater in Hanford, WA
Tanks containing nuclear waste resulted from the production of U.S. nuclear bombs are now a potential hazard for the environment, despite the DoE saying...
Surburban Carbon Dioxide “Hurricanes” Surround Major Cities
Thanks to research being done at the University of California at Berkeley, we can see, in a striking way, where the carbon dioxide emissions...
The Huge Impact of Plastics on Worldwide Pollution
Polymers, it is almost impossible to imagine life without them. Whether you love them or loathe them, they have immensely transformed our global...
NASA: Ozone Holes Have Not Begun To Recover
Scientists from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center established that the ozone layer has not begun to recover despite the ban on the use of...
Switching to Renewable Energy in the U.S. Will Bring Financial Benefits, Study Says
A study published in the latest issue of the Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences by scientists from the Natural Resources Defense Council in...
Coal Pollution Directly Related to Premature Death
Stuttgart University was commissioned by Greenpeace to conduct a study to determine the impacts of Europe’s largest coal power plants. Stuttgart’s scientists were able...
Tesla Motors, Clearing the Air in China?
Moving Tesla Motors manufacturing to China could bring that price down, but the Chinese nouveau-riche love their import luxury cars. In fact, one Chinese...
Serendipitous Sugar Discovery Revolutionizes the Foundry Industry
The foundry industry, which predates Greek and Roman history, has been invaluable in advancing human civilization and has a technological and cultural significance that...
