Tag: air pollution

gold mining area in Peru's southeastern Amazon region

Trees capture toxic fingerprint of gold mining in the Amazon todayheadline

April 8, 2025

A gold mining area in the Peruvian AmazonERNESTO BENAVIDES/AFP via Getty Images Mercury pollution accumulated in trees could offer a ...

Science & Environment

Wildfire Smoke Drives Surge in Mental Health Crises todayheadline

April 4, 2025

The thick, acrid smoke that blanketed California during the record-breaking 2020 wildfire season did more than just irritate lungs and ...

Science & Environment

Is cleaner air accelerating global warming more than we expected? todayheadline

February 4, 2025

Air pollution can have a cooling effect on the climateCheunghyo/Getty Images James Hansen, the climate scientist best known for alerting ...

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Setting fire to a million acres of California could cut smoke by half todayheadline

January 25, 2025

Firefighters in California during a prescribed burnSan Francisco Chronicle via Getty You can fight fire with fire, even in the ...

Canada's Clean Electricity Regulations: What You Need To Know

Environmental Policies

How Some Conservative Governments Embrace Renewables

January 24, 2025

Several conservative-led jurisdictions have proven that supporting renewable energy doesn’t mean abandoning careful money management. True “conservatives” care about open ...

Science & Environment

Global treaty is failing to curb ultra-potent HFC-23 greenhouse gas emissions todayheadline

January 3, 2025

Air-conditioning units, which often use HFC gases, on a building in Shenyang, ChinaVisual China Group via Getty Images Emissions of ...

Us & Canada

Supreme Court dismisses constitutional claim in California pollution case

December 16, 2024

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a red-state constitutional challenge to California’s special authority to fight air pollution. Over ...

Us & Canada

Editorial: Another year, another broken promise to curb air pollution from L.A. ports

December 15, 2024

Southern California air quality regulators are reneging on their promise to enact long-delayed rules to curb health-damaging and planet-warming pollution ...

Us & Canada

California just set rules that trade short-term climate gain for long-term health and safety

November 20, 2024

As long-serving members of the California Air Resources Board, we have prioritized environmental justice and community health, championing efforts to ...