China Intends To Ban Fossil Fuel Vehicles In Order To Reduce Pollution
China is well known as a heavily polluted country. In 2012, state officials announced that it would burn 15 million tons of coal by...
China’s Plans to Build Environmentally-Damaging Coal-Powered Natural Gas Plants
China is currently in the process of planning synthetic natural gas plants, which are powered by coal. Though this could be good for China’s...
Huge 400,000-gallon Oil Spill Threatens Ecosystems in the Gulf of Mexico
A pipe owned by LLOG Exploration Company recently spilled approx. 393,000 gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. This is the largest oil...
Swiss Company Produces First Carbon Capturing Power Plant
Harnessing greenhouse gases from point sources, such as flue stacks, is an accepted mitigation for air pollution. However, capturing carbon dioxide directly from the...
How to Measure Mercury Contamination With a Mobile Phone
A team of chemists at University of Burgos in Spain have produced a sheet that acts similarly to litmus paper, but it changes its...
Our Collective Blind Spot to Synthetic Chemical Contamination
We are really focused on carbon emissions, and while that is positive, we are overlooking a very dangerous source of environmental contamination. We produce...
Living Near Car Traffic Leads to Heart Disease, Study Finds
Fumes from gas-powered cars (diesels, mostly) can harm your health seriously if you live near high-trafficked roads. Fine particle matter (PM) emitted by ICE...
Nano Silver-Treated Clothes May Harm Plant Life
Nanotechnology has been offering various innovative products in biomedical, pharmaceutical, cosmetics, and semiconductor industries, to name a few. The apparel products have not escaped...
Beijing’s Air Pollution Reaches Dangerously High Levels
China is at a crossroads. China has more air pollution than any other country in the world, and the amount of particulate matter in...
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...
