Dec. 17, 2024 — New technology could remotely identify various types of plastics, offering a valuable tool for future monitoring and analysis of oceanic plastic pollution. A new hyperspectral ...

Jan. 11, 2025 — People who have limited access to air conditioning may be at higher risk of seeking emergency care for health problems following exposure to wildfire smoke, according to a new study.

These surfaces can off-gas for weeks or even months, studies show, although that will reduce over time. Wildfires contribute to harmful fine particle pollution, which is at levels bad for human ...

The powdered substance sprayed over the California wildfires is called Phos-Chek. It contains ammonium phosphate — an ...

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but it will see large fires that may be contributing to air pollution. In these images, fires are represented with red dots. Not all dust storms are visible, but very large storms that last for ...

Leaf blowers All the consequences have been well documented. Leaf blowers cause air and noise pollution, fill the air with ...

In a groundbreaking report released by the Global Alliance on Health and Pollution, Air Quality Asia, and Boston College’s Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society, researchers place ...

Air pollution is killing 2,780 people in Massachusetts each year, nearly 5 percent of all deaths in the state, and that is a big deal. Air pollution is something we can fix. We know the steps that ...

A team of researchers from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed an ...

Microbial technology offers one useful recycling alternative. Anaerobic digestion, based on the human gut, can cut waste ...

China had taken in nearly half of the world’s plastic waste since 1992 until it imposed an import ban in 2018.