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Rivers Gain Legal Protection From Misuse
— LONDON, 21 March, 2019 − So Old Man River is getting a day in court: a growing international initiative is seeing to it that rivers gain legal protection against pollution and other forms of...
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How About We All Start Monitoring Air Pollution?
— The recent wildfires in California, the most intense and extensive in the state’s recorded history, have destroyed an area of more than 674,957 hectares, filling the area with smoke during an...
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UK Urged to Remove Carbon from Coal
— LONDON, 20 February, 2019 − To remove carbon from gas, which is used in vast quantities across Europe for heating and cooking, is one of the great technical difficulties that must be overcome to save...
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Energy from Greenhouse Gases is Possible
— LONDON, 8 February, 2019 – Researchers have found ways to realise a modern version of the medieval alchemists’ dream – not turning base metals into gold, but conjuring energy from greenhouse gases,...
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Salt-Free Drinkable Water Comes at a Cost
— LONDON, 15 January, 2019 – Around the arid world, some 16,000 desalination plants are now purifying seawater and brackish aquifers, producing 95 million cubic metres of fresh, salt-free drinkable...
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Can Airlines be Forced to Change Landing Patterns?
— Dear EarthTalk: I’ve noticed more and more air traffic over my house in Seattle and I’m getting a little sick of all the noise. Is there anything I can do to force the airlines to disperse their...
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Pollution: Crash Course Ecology #11
— Hank talks about the last major way humans are impacting the environment in this penultimate episode of Crash Course Ecology. Pollution takes many forms – from the simplest piece of litter to the...
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San Francisco Airport Announces Ban on Sales of Plastic Water Bottles
— The days of picking up a plastic bottle of water to stay hydrated during a long flight will soon be over for people flying out of San Francisco’s international airport (SFO). The airport, which...
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Water Pollution
— In this video Paul Andersen explains how water quality can be degraded by pollutants. Wastewater is the main source of water pollution and can be measure using the BOD (biochemical oxygen demand)....
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I’ve Heard That School Buses Cause a lot of Pollution
— — — This piece previously published on Earth Talk and is republished with the permission of the authors. Photo courtesy Shutterstock. The post I’ve Heard That School Buses Cause a lot of...
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Health Impacts of Pollution
— In this video Paul Andersen explains how chemicals can cause both chronic and acute diseases. A discussion of the five main types of toxins; neurotoxins, carcinogens, teratogens, endocrine...
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Plastic Particles Now Infest the Arctic
— LONDON, 27 April, 2018 – Plastic particles have colonised one of the last once-pristine oceans. German scientists sampled sea ice from five locations within the Arctic Circle and counted up to 12,000...
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Alien Seaweed Arrives in Antartica
— LONDON, 19 July, 2018 – A foreign invader, a species of alien seaweed, has managed to cross the oceans to reach the frozen Antarctic shores. So scientists may have to give up a cherished belief: that...
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Smart Cities Require Smart Management Systems
By Enrique Dans Faced with worsening traffic problems and increasingly aware of the climate emergency, more and more cities are exploring ways to manage their transportation systems within the concept...
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Cheap Renewables Will Price Out Oil on Roads
— LONDON, 16 August, 2019 − The days of oil as a fuel for cars, whether petrol or diesel, are numbered − because the economies offered by wind and solar energy and other cheap renewables, combined with...
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What Is the Most Polluted City? It’s Really Important To Know
By Brandie Jefferson “I often see rankings of the most polluted city in the world,’” says Randall Martin, professor in the energy, environmental, and chemical engineering department in the McKelvey...
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Your City Could Be Exporting Deadly Air Pollution – Here’s Why
— Gary Haq, University of York Air pollution is often seen as a local problem requiring local and regional solutions. Karachi, London, Lagos, Mexico City and Paris are just a few of the world’s cities...
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Small’ Nuclear War Could Bring Global Cooling
— LONDON, 21 August, 2019 − If a nuclear war should ever break out, any survivors could have to cope not just with the immediate effects of blast and radioactivity, but with climate mayhem as well:...
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The Most Important Facts We Don’t Know About the Ocean
Oceans will be discussed at the Global Landscapes Forum New York 2019. Learn more about how to join here. “Our biggest threat to the ocean is our ignorance of it,” says Margaret Leinen, one of the...
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Indian Voters Demand Environmental Clean-Up
— By Paul Brown CHENNAI, 10 April, 2019 − Candidates promising to fight for clean drinking water and a halt to pollution are likely to gain the support of millions of Indian voters. Environmental...
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