Articles tagged "pollution"

As some demonstrators were hauled away by uniformed and plainclothes police, some shouted, "Police officers are Kunming residents too! Police officers drink Kunming water too!"

Our towns, lives, infrastructure, and food systems are working against creating a healthy population—particularly if you live in poor, urban areas.

Scientists have finally found a better use for a bird's feather than sticking it in your cap.

A new study points to trees as smog conspirators.

Just breathing is killing you.

Where industrial pollution creates its own sunsets.

Plastic is forever, people. Let's use it wisely.

Mexico City is the latest to show off a building that sucks up pollution.

Save your lungs from a toxic commute.

As smog unravels the Faustian bargain of Chinese society.

Isn’t this just perfect, on the day — one day! — after BP was handed a record $4.5 billion fine for the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

The “most polluted lake in the world” is making the rounds on the internet, because apparently the internet decided it wanted to talk about nuclear waste-filled bodies of water. And this is one hell of a nuclear waste-filled body of water. It’s the n…

So charbroiling a burger pollutes a lot more than you would've thought: a new study from UC Riverside has found that cooking up a single burger pollutes more than a diesel-powered big rig. "Emissions from commercial charbroilers are a very signif…

Noise pollution can kill you or at least contribute to killing you over a long period of time. New studies are showing that noise pollution—mostly, the buzz of highways and road traffic—can prevent sleep and inflict some pretty serious damage on the…

Beijing’s got air issues. Dust and fumes blow in from out-of-province factories and the city suffers from the exhaust of more than five million cars. Until recently, officials in the Chinese capital half-boasted that 2,000 new cars were joining its c…

Yesterday, popular demonstrations racked Shifang, a city in the Sichuan province, leading to bloody clashes with police decked out in riot gear and some bricks hurled at local government offices. The maelstrom succeeded in halting the construction of…

Beaches, the de facto summertime destination of choice for coastal dwellers and vacationers everywhere, can be disgusting. Anyone who's hopped over loose syringes and clumps of food packaging after veering off the Coney Island boardwalk can tell you

Quick refresher: hydraulic ffracking is the practice of injecting water at extremely high pressure miles deep underground to release natural gas for harvesting and selling. To you, perhaps. It's currently banned in many localities and even whole coun…

China's farms are full of heavy metal.

The last time you sucked down a latte, did you pause to consider where that empty cup was going? Of course you didn't! Well, here's a dopio shot of reality for you: there is a Texas-sized (literally, not figuratively) island of junk floating in the P…