Energy & Green Tech
As the COVID-19 shutdowns and stay-at-home orders brought much of the world's travel and commerce to a standstill, people around the world started noticing clearer skies as a result of lower levels of air pollution. Now, ...
Jul 22, 2020
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Consumer & Gadgets
Whether it comes from second-hand cigarette smoke, motor vehicle exhaust, building materials or the fumes from household cleaning supplies, toxic air is all around us.
May 8, 2020
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Machine learning & AI
Imagine being scared to breathe the air around you.
Mar 18, 2020
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Software
With version 55 of its Android browser, Oslo, Norway-based Opera has a redesigned night mode that "reduces the light pollution caused by your phone to the bare minimum."
Consumer & Gadgets
Around the world, more than 3 billion people—nearly half the world's population—cook their food using solid fuels like firewood and charcoal on open fires or traditional stoves. This produces a lot of smoke, creating ...
Jul 15, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
An international team of researchers has found that air pollution in China is dramatically reducing the amount of power that is generated by solar cells in that country. In their paper published in the journal Nature Energy, ...
Energy & Green Tech
Air pollution is responsible for millions of deaths every year, worldwide. According to a State of Global Air report, air pollution is the fifth greatest global mortality risk.
Energy & Green Tech
Last August, Abdelrhman Mohamed found himself hiking deep into the wilderness of Yellowstone National Park.
Mar 5, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
Can you use textiles to clean the air? Take sunlight. Add a film coating to fabric. And you get curtains that destroy pollutants and purify the air inside your home. The recipe is being touted by Ikea. Along with bunk beds ...
Engineering
Air conditioning and heating systems are not only great for keeping a home cool or warm, but they also help clean the air of harmful pollutants.
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A pollutant is a waste material that pollutes air, water or soil, and is the cause of pollution.
Three factors determine the severity of a pollutant: its chemical nature, its concentration and its persistence. Some pollutants are biodegradable and therefore will not persist in the environment in the long term. However the degradation products of some pollutants are themselves polluting such as the products DDE and DDD produced from degradation of DDT
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