Topic: Pollution

By Dashiell Bennett

Jan 14, 2013

Beijing's Pollution Problem Gets Out of Hand

Chinese officials have shut down factories and ordered cars off the roads to try and save their capital city after spending three straight days under a cloud of toxic smog. 

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By David Wagner

Jan 8, 2013

Today in Research

Here's Evidence That Alberta's Oil Fields Are Polluting the Water

Discovered: Canadian tar sands impact regional water supplies; therapy doesn't necessarily stop teens from becoming suicidal; first images of the high-energy cosmos; city birds grow up fast.

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By David Wagner

Nov 9, 2012

Today in Green Research

Lots of Groundwater Will Stay Polluted; More Work Needed on Malaria Vaccines

Discovered: Thousands of nasty groundwater sites won't be cleaned anytime soon; malaria vaccine's effectiveness declines; ash tree attacks are here to stay; coral reef defense tactics.

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By Serena Dai

Oct 29, 2012

Five Best Green Stories

Romney's Energy Adviser Is Big on Fracking; The Fastest, Greenest Supercomputer

Mother Jones on Romney's energy adviser is a fracking booster, National Geographic on a fast new supercomputer, The Daily Beast on China's green protest, California Watch on textbooks and plastics, and Grist on green shopping. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jun 11, 2012

Today in Research

A Surface That Never Gets Icy; Tiny Particles Are Killing Us

Discovered: A surface that is immune to iciness, the health dangers of nano-particles, quit smoking at any age, and low dopamine means high aggression.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Jun 5, 2012

China Would Like the World to Stop Noticing Its Terrible Air Pollution

In your ridiculous-but-not-ridiculous-because-this-is-China-we're-talking-about news of the day: the Chinese government on Tuesday told foreign embassies to stop reporting on Beijing's crappy air quality. 

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By Dino Grandoni

Apr 24, 2012

Five Best Green Stories

Don't Nuke Nuclear Just Yet; A Water War in SoCal

The Washington Post on nuclear energy, The New York Times on water in San Diego, Mother Jones on motorbikes in Vietnam, Bloomberg View on factory-farm antibiotics, and the Associated Press on Chinese electric cars

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Apr 23, 2012

Today in Green Research

Nobody's Using Cookstoves; Pollution Is Making Us Fat

Today in Green Research: Cookstoves aren't saving humanity, pollution's making us fat, climate change is going to mess with the corn market, a highly endangered plant. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Apr 20, 2012

Today in Green Research

Some Glaciers Are Doing Alright; Death by Pollution

Discovered in Green: Not all glaciers are melting into oblivion, death by pollution, eating meat is good for humanity, and we need new, different pine trees. 

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By Adam Martin

Apr 12, 2012

Five Best Green Stories

How Wastewater May Cause Earthquakes; Why Trees Are Awesome

NPR on wastewater and earthquakes, The Guardian on birds and windmills, Good on agribusiness, The New York Times on trees, and Courthouse News on tiger salamanders.

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By Dino Grandoni

Apr 10, 2012

Five Best Green Stories

A Garden Grows in Mexico City; Big Rigs Get Green

The New York Times on pollution in Mexico City, the Los Angeles Times on green big-rigs, Scientific American on renewable energy in Hawaii, Bloomberg Views on food safely, and Capital New York on bioluminescence

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By Adam Martin

Apr 9, 2012

The NGO Trying to Make Biking Cool in Beijing

In Beijing, where air pollution threatens to take years off your life, some people have no interest in riding a bike if they can possibly afford a car, which is a shame because rediscovering the tradition of cycling could help reduce the smog that chokes the city.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Nov 29, 2011

Planet Earth Had a Great Fall

Cartoonist Tom Toles sees a similarity between our planet and Humpty Dumpty.

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By Adam Martin

Nov 3, 2011

Greenhouse Gases Have Surpassed the Worst-Case Scenario

In your depressing environmental news for the day, the Associated Press reports worldwide greenhouse gases jumped higher than it ever had from 2009 to 2010, surpassing a worst-case scenario predicted four years ago.

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By Dino Grandoni

Oct 21, 2011

California Ushers in World's Second Largest Cap-and-Trade Scheme

The state of California's clean air agency adopted the nation's first-ever state-level cap-and-trade program after a tense hearing Thursday.

Comments | 767 Views

By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 7, 2011

Al Gore Is Very Disappointed with Obama's EPA Decision

What did the president expect?

Comments | 645 Views

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