Every few years, the tires on your car wear thin and need to be replaced. But where does that lost tire material go? The answer, unfortunately, is often waterways, where the tiny microplastic ...
No pollution is good for anyone’s health, but a new study found that scientists may have significantly underestimated just how deadly pollution from coal-fired plants can be. It also shows how tighter ...
Unlike most other pollutants, particulate matter (PM) cannot be characterized by the space- and time-variations of the mass concentrations of a single compound. Important factors influencing PM ...
If you’re curious about the air quality in your city on a given day, you might pull up your phone’s weather app to see the air-quality index based on various pollutants. But that data, which tends to ...
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Globally, non-point source pollution is an important source of water quality deterioration in rivers and lakes. A ditch-pond system, consisting of ditches and ponds, is considered to be similar to ...
Power plants, manufacturers, asphalt batch plants, and other industrial operators hoping to expand in Massachusetts will soon have to determine whether the resulting air pollution would ...
Road traffic is one of the causes of air pollution in Lagos, Nigeria. Photo by Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images Ten more African cities have signed on to the C40 Clean Air Cities Declaration to ...
Jakarta’s air pollution crisis extends indoors, where fine particulate matter often exceeds outdoor levels and World Health Organization guidelines. Poorer households face nearly double the exposure ...