New Catalytic Converter Increases Fuel Efficiency and Drops Tailpipe Pollution

One of the most important components in a vehicle for controlling exhaust emission is the catalytic converter. Even though this is common knowledge, there...
The Correlation is Simple, More Oil Trains = More Oil Spills

Oil Spills by Rail Spiked Last Year, Gross Understatement

Perhaps the last time anyone heard of an oil spill, it was related to the DeepWater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico,...

Low-level Nuclear Waste Disposal Seems Easy Money-Making Business

Have you ever wondered what companies should do in order to safely dispose of nuclear waste? Considering the current charging rate per cubic foot,...

New Rice University Sensor Sniffs Greenhouse Gases

A particularly difficult argument to have with those who do not have a background in environmental topics is one that involves the actual effects of greenhouse...

How Satellite Imaging Can Quantify and Prevent Air Pollution

A team of scientists from the Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales claim to have found a way to quantify concentrations of carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide...

Old Trees Absorb More Carbon Than Their Young Neighbors, Study Says

A team of scientists from the University of Melbourne established that the older the tree gets, the more carbon it absorbs. The findings published...
Emma Mærsk Generates the Same Emissions of 50 Million Vehicles Every Year

Container Ships’ Unregulated Emissions Will Astonish You!

The next time you buy groceries, a laptop, or that shiny iThingn+1, take a moment and think about the emissions your purchase just generated. Sometimes,...

Fake Sunrise is Beijing’s Real Solution to Record Pollution Levels

In an incredibly tragic move by one of the most polluted cities in the world, Beijing has taken to using giant video screens in...

Cars are the Worst Type of Transportation, Study Finds

A research professor at the University of Michigan Research Institute discovered that data collected between 1970 and 2010 proves that every form of transportation...

Spider Webs Might Future’s Most Effective Air Pollution Filters

Finding effective ways to clean up pollutants from the air has become quite a challenge for quite a number of scientific teams. An interesting...