The results from a 12-year study on forests provide researchers with surprising new evidence: forests have a greater capacity to soak up heat-trapping carbon dioxide gas than previously anticipated. The implication is that forests could help slow the pace of human-caused climate warming more than...
Oct
24
Trees provide heat relief in crowded parking lots. Credit: Pics4Learning
Everyone knows that trees clean the air. But do you know how they do it? Dave Nowak, a researcher with the USDA Forest Service in the Northeast has studied the effect of trees on air quality extensively. Trees clean the air...
Sep
13
California has long been at the forefront of the fight for clean air and a healthy environment.
Population and development pressures and how we handled them recently, have brought about changes here on a scale seen earlier and more intensely than elsewhere. Automobile-oriented urban sprawl and the...
Sep
11
NASA's Terra EOS spacecraft (Courtesy: NASA/NCAR/CSA)
For over a decade the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) spacecraft Terra has collected views of the world’s air pollution as it wafts around the globe.
The first of the United States’ major Earth Observing...
Sep
07
Clean air should be a fundamental right. These people from all 50 states have come together for one commons cause – Clean Air now!
To hear their voice, read their stories and see their photos please visit Earth Justice and spread the word.
Sep
03
How to plan outdoor activities using the Air Quality Health Index to avoid smog and pollution.
Environment Canada Air Quality Health Index
Sep
03
Bahrain's beaches are at risk from the environmental impact of rapid growth. Photo courtesy of Bahrain Tourism Board.
A series of talks among scientists, business and economic leaders, politicians, academics, human rights activists, NGOs and others in the Kingdom of Bahrain has resulted in an...
Aug
23
Carbon offsets that support renewable energy or methane capture tend to have immediate impact, whereas mitigation through reforestation or changes in land-use tend to be long-term. Photo: Creative Commons / Mafalda Moreira Santos
Recently the Ecology Global Network spoke of carbon footprints: a way...
Aug
18
