Tag: Pollution

The science of air quality is gaining a lot of new grounds in recent years due to new. advances in sensors, data collection, and computing technologies. New sensors are moved out the laboratories and on to the streets, where they are able in measuring at ultrafine and molecule scales. These data are...

Delhi is one city which has extreme emotional value for me. And why not? It’s the city I grew up in. Despite of all it’s bad reputation, I love the city  Image courtesy— HT It’s no news for Delhi people that the air quality of the city has been worsening d...

Nazi Germany’s Holocaust killed around 6 million Jews over a period of 6 years. In the past 6 years, as per calculations derived from annual estimates, over 6 million people have died in India as a result of Air Pollution.¹ This is, in no manner, meant to undermine the savagely barbaric n...

Although convenient, plastic has become a global concern setting off all kinds of alarms. I had yet to learn how big this had become or how far it had reached socially, environmentally, or corporately. My plight on the subject began with an Art Project for Seabirds and a focus on Plastic pollution. ...

Have you ever asked yourself how things get to where you are? Bananas from Ecuador? No problem. A computer from China? It’s waiting for you. Clothes from Bangladesh? Of course. Sure, there’s a lot of buzz going around about Amazon’s supply chain, but that’s usually...

While this is a troubling situation that disrupts the behavior of humans and all animals, it affects astronomers more than most, as the field of astronomy relies on being very sensitive to faint objects in the night sky; more light pollution of all types, including from bright satellite streaks, mea...

Hi! I’m Erik Kvam. I’m the creator of Regenerative Decision-making. Regenerative Decision-making is a tool — in the form of a decision-making process usable by people everywhere — for reversing the planet’s cascading ecological crises and allowing the planet to heal ...

When thinking about environmental pollution, the first type of pollution that may come to mind is plastic pollution. Or maybe air pollution. A type of pollution many don’t think of is pharmaceutical pollution. Pharmaceuticals are chemical substances used for medicinal purposes such as illness ...