Study Finds Diesel Fumes Responsible for Honeybee Decline
Scientists from Britain’s University of Southampton found diesel fumes may be disrupting the honeybees’ ability to recognize certain flowers and pollinate. Not only...
European Nations Look to Extend Carbon Trading Scheme to Foreign Airline Carriers
Many European nations have expressed the desire to curb airline emissions, but are coming under pressure due to the desire for foreign air carriers...
Damaged Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Still Leaking Radioactive Water
After a March 11, 2011 earthquake off the shore of Japan's Northeastern Fukushima Prefecture, magnitude 9.0, a tsunami wiped out homes and businesses, displacing...
Lethal Air Pollution Mapped by NASA’s Earth Observatory
Air pollution has been linked with many detrimental health effects, and we've long known that we need to clean up our act if quality...
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...
New Cooker Reduces Black Carbon Emissions and Its Negative Effects on Glaciers
If there is a way to minimize glacier melt, while saving millions of lives, change in cooking habits might just be it. As various...
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...
Benefits of Reduced Air Pollution Outweigh the Cost of Green Energy
Pollution is a problem that can be fixed largely by the implementation of green energy and the reduction of fossil fuel emissions.
However, is it...
Paying For Plastic Bags Cuts Down Their Use And Plastic Pollution
Introducing charges for plastic bags and product packaging is set to reduce plastic pollution of waterways and oceans, according to UK specialists.
But recycling and packaging...
Reducing Carbon Emissions Could Save Millions of Lives in 2100
Scientists from University of North Carolina, the Joint Global Change Research Institute, UCAR/NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory and the US Environmental Protection Agency, conducted...
