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
The animation above, courtesy of NASA Earth Observatory, shows wildfires that occurred on a monthly basis across the globe between March 2000 and June 2011. The colors are based on a count of the number (not size) of fires observed within a 1,000-square-kilometer area.
White pixels show the high...
Aug
09
Oil refinery on Puget Sound. Credit: Walter Siegmund
A report released in July by the World Resources Institute and the Environmental Law Institute on the “social cost of carbon” identifies weaknesses in current cost-benefit analyses that dramatically underestimate the harm inflicted by climate...
Aug
07
White House Fuel Standards Infographic. Click to enlarge.
Yesterday, President Obama announced an agreement with a broad coalition of automakers and other stakeholders to dramatically increase fuel economy and reduce greenhouse gas pollution for all 2017-2025 new cars and trucks sold in the United...
Jul
30
Using data from the EPA’s Toxics Release Inventory, the Natural Resources Defense Council has compiled a list of states with the most toxic air pollution from coal- and oil-fired power plants. Release of the analysis, entitled “Toxic Power: How Power Plants Contaminate Our Air and States”...
Jul
22
Ken Lund/Creative Commons
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced yesterday a new Cross-State Air Pollution Rule to improve air quality for 240 million Americans by significantly reducing harmful smokestack emissions produced outside of their own state borders.
Specifically...
Jul
08
