Slashdot Items Tagged "pollution"

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Friday April 19, 2024 @05:45PM Ocean Spray Emits More PFAS Than Industrial Polluters, Study Finds
Friday March 29, 2024 @06:12PM New Pollution Rules Aim To Lift Sales of Electric Trucks
Tuesday March 26, 2024 @09:30PM Crypto Miner, Pennsylvania Hit With Lawsuit Over Pollution From Bitcoin Mine
Friday February 23, 2024 @07:54PM Air Pollution Could Be Significant Cause of Dementia
Wednesday February 07, 2024 @07:46PM EPA Tightens Rules On Some Air Pollution For the First Time In Over a Decade
Tuesday February 06, 2024 @02:27PM The EU Proposes Slashing Pollution 90 Percent by 2040
Wednesday November 29, 2023 @07:52PM Traffic Pollution Can Cause Rise In Blood Pressure, Study Finds
Wednesday November 15, 2023 @11:50AM EU Agrees Law To Curb Methane Emissions From Fossil Fuel Industry
Thursday October 19, 2023 @08:59PM A Simple Streetlight Hack Could Protect Astronomy From Urban Light Pollution
Tuesday April 11, 2023 @06:43PM Shutting Down Nuclear Power Could Increase Air Pollution, Finds MIT Study
Friday February 03, 2023 @01:56PM Air Pollution Causes Chess Players To Make More Mistakes, Study Finds
Wednesday February 01, 2023 @07:36PM Study Reveals Links Between UK Air Pollution and Mental Ill-Health
Tuesday December 27, 2022 @12:54PM Amazon Packages Burn in India, Final Stop in Broken Recycling System
Monday December 12, 2022 @10:25AM How Skyglow Pollution Is Separating Us From the Stars
Monday November 14, 2022 @08:13PM A New Website Backed By Al Gore Tracks Big Polluters By Name
Thursday October 06, 2022 @05:59AM Toxic Air Pollution Particles Found in Lungs, Livers and Brains of Unborn Babies
Friday September 23, 2022 @01:54PM Wildfire Smoke is Unraveling Decades of Air Quality Gains, Exposing Millions of Americans To Extreme Pollution Levels
Tuesday September 20, 2022 @10:00PM UN Chief Calls For Windfall Tax On Fossil Fuel Companies
Wednesday July 13, 2022 @06:50PM Light Pollution Is Disrupting the Seasonal Rhythms of Plants and Trees
Wednesday May 18, 2022 @07:31PM Rocket Engine Exhaust Pollution Extends High Into Earth's Atmosphere
Wednesday May 11, 2022 @06:33PM Cleaner Air Leads To More Atlantic Hurricanes, Study Finds
Thursday April 28, 2022 @07:54PM Plastic-Eating Enzyme Could Eliminate Billions of Tons of Landfill Waste
Wednesday April 06, 2022 @04:39PM Microplastics Found Deep in Lungs of Living People for First Time
Wednesday March 09, 2022 @09:17PM Biden Restores California's Ability To Impose Stricter Auto Pollution Limits
Monday March 07, 2022 @03:55PM EPA Proposes New Rules To Cut Heavy Truck Emissions
Thursday February 17, 2022 @12:09PM Air Pollution May Affect Sperm Quality, Says Study
Tuesday January 18, 2022 @07:59PM Chemical Pollution Has Passed Safe Limit For Humanity, Say Scientists
Wednesday August 04, 2021 @06:11PM Senate Democrats To Introduce Legislation That Would Tax Energy Companies Responsible For Major Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Tuesday May 11, 2021 @04:55PM Amazon and Others Ordered To Slash Diesel Pollution From Warehouse Trucks
Thursday May 06, 2021 @05:53PM China's Emissions Now Exceed All the Developed World's Combined
Thursday April 01, 2021 @05:53PM Rapid Global Heating Is Hurting Farm Productivity, Study Finds
Friday March 19, 2021 @04:40PM Plastic Particles Pass From Mothers Into Foetuses, Rat Study Shows
Wednesday December 16, 2020 @05:04PM The First Person In the UK To Have Air Pollution Listed As a Cause of Death
Wednesday November 25, 2020 @07:59PM Illegal Tampering By Diesel Pickup Owners Is Worsening Pollution, EPA Says
Friday October 30, 2020 @05:49PM US and UK Citizens Are World's Biggest Sources of Plastic Waste
Monday September 21, 2020 @10:35PM Airbus Reveals Plans For Zero-Emission Aircraft Fueled By Hydrogen
Thursday September 03, 2020 @04:44PM Study Suggests Fresh Asphalt Is a Significant Source of Air Pollution
Wednesday April 22, 2020 @06:32PM Air Pollution Falls By Unprecedented Levels In Major Global Cities During Coronavirus Lockdowns
Tuesday March 31, 2020 @09:04PM Report Reveals 'Massive Plastic Pollution Footprint' of Drinks Firms
Monday March 30, 2020 @04:44PM Trump Administration, In Biggest Environmental Rollback, To Announce Auto Pollution Rules
Monday March 23, 2020 @12:48PM Traffic and Pollution Plummet as US Cities Shut Down for Coronavirus
Tuesday March 17, 2020 @05:38PM California Loses Up To $1 Billion In Crops Each Year Because of Air Pollution, Study Finds
Tuesday February 25, 2020 @09:27PM Uber and Lyft Generate 70 Percent More Pollution Than Trips They Displace, Study Finds
Wednesday December 18, 2019 @06:10PM Depression and Suicide Linked To Air Pollution In New Global Study
Monday December 02, 2019 @06:45PM Coal Power Becoming 'Uninsurable' As Firms Refuse Cover
Friday November 08, 2019 @09:33AM House Plants Have Little Effect on Indoor Air Quality, Study Concludes
Thursday October 31, 2019 @02:12PM Coca-Cola, Nestle, and PepsiCo Are the Top 3 Plastic Polluters on the Planet
Monday October 21, 2019 @06:54PM Air Pollution 'Triggers Hundreds More Heart Attacks and Strokes,' Study Finds
Friday October 11, 2019 @12:09PM Exposure To Air Pollution is Linked To an Increase in Violent Crime
Tuesday October 01, 2019 @10:14AM Thousands of Ships Fitted With 'Cheat Devices' To Divert Poisonous Pollution Into Sea
Wednesday September 18, 2019 @06:36PM Research Finds Black Carbon Breathed By Mothers Can Cross Into Unborn Children
Wednesday September 11, 2019 @01:20PM Diesel Cars Emit More Air Pollution On Hot Days, Study Finds
Tuesday August 27, 2019 @05:51PM Study Suggests Link Between Air Pollution and Psychiatric Disorders
Wednesday July 17, 2019 @06:36PM California Awards $70 Million To State Schools To Replace 200 Polluting Diesel School Buses With All-Electric Buses
Wednesday July 10, 2019 @07:23PM Glacial Melting In Antarctica May Become Irreversible, NASA-Funded Study Suggests
Wednesday July 10, 2019 @07:14PM Chinese Air Pollution Dimmed Sunlight Enough To Impact Solar Panels
Monday July 08, 2019 @05:53PM Indoor Carbon Dioxide Levels Could Be a Health Hazard, Scientists Warn
Monday March 11, 2019 @05:16PM Ethnic Minorities Produce Less Pollution But Are Exposed To More
Tuesday February 19, 2019 @06:18PM How Streaming Music Could Be Harming the Planet
Thursday January 24, 2019 @08:22PM Bangkok Fights Air Pollution With Water-Spraying Drones
Monday November 19, 2018 @05:09PM Norwegian Company Plans To Power Their Cruise Ships With Dead Fish
Wednesday November 07, 2018 @06:33PM A Robot Scientist Will Dream Up New Materials To Advance Computing
Monday November 05, 2018 @01:26PM Childhood Obesity Linked To Air Pollution From Vehicles
Tuesday October 30, 2018 @07:41AM Air Pollution Is the 'New Tobacco,' Warns WHO
Sunday October 21, 2018 @01:20PM US Air Pollution Deaths Nearly Halved Between 1990 and 2010
Thursday October 18, 2018 @02:59PM Remote South Atlantic Islands Are Flooded With Plastic
Tuesday October 02, 2018 @07:06PM New Study Finds Incredibly High Carbon Pollution Costs -- Especially For the US and India
Friday September 21, 2018 @07:30PM Southern California Sees Its Longest Streak of Bad Air In Decades
Wednesday September 19, 2018 @02:22AM VW Group, BMW and Daimler Are Under Investigation For Collusion In Europe
Monday August 27, 2018 @09:13PM Air Pollution Causes 'Huge' Reduction in Intelligence, Study Reveals
Friday August 03, 2018 @02:53PM Air Pollution Linked To Changes In Heart Structure, Study Shows
Friday July 06, 2018 @05:01PM Hawaii Bans Sunscreens That Hurt Coral Reefs
Tuesday June 26, 2018 @04:32PM Mumbai Bans Plastic Bags, Bottles, and Single-Use Plastic Containers
Tuesday May 15, 2018 @04:25PM A Quarter of Americans Spend All Day Inside, Survey Finds
Saturday May 12, 2018 @12:50AM Illinois To Sue EPA For Exempting Foxconn Plant From Pollution Controls
Tuesday April 17, 2018 @05:16PM More Than 95% of World's Population Breathing Unhealthy Air, Says New Report
Tuesday March 13, 2018 @04:47PM China's Anti-Pollution Initiative Produces Stellar Results
Friday February 16, 2018 @03:46AM China Reassigns 60,000 Soldiers To Plant Trees In Bid To Fight Pollution
Thursday February 15, 2018 @08:40PM Household Products Now Rival Cars As a Source of Air Pollution, Say Scientists
Wednesday February 14, 2018 @10:53AM Germany Considers Free Public Transport in Fight To Banish Air Pollution
Thursday January 25, 2018 @04:56PM Plastic Pollution Is Killing Coral Reefs, 4-Year Study Finds
Tuesday January 16, 2018 @05:04PM China Builds 'World's Biggest Air Purifier' That Actually Works
Wednesday November 29, 2017 @04:57PM Scientists Call For Ban On Glitter, Say It's a Global Hazard That Pollutes Oceans
Wednesday November 22, 2017 @04:10PM Night Being 'Lost' To Artificial Light
Wednesday October 25, 2017 @01:33PM China Shuts Down Tens Of Thousands Of Factories In Widespread Pollution Crackdown
Wednesday September 20, 2017 @04:14PM Mathematical Formula Predicts Global Mass Extinction Event in 2100
Monday September 18, 2017 @05:40PM Diesel Cars Contribute To 5,000 Premature Deaths a Year In Europe, Says Study
Thursday September 14, 2017 @03:23PM We're Eating Plastics From Our Own Dirty Laundry
Monday September 11, 2017 @04:19PM China Joins the Growing Movement To Ban Gasoline, Diesel Cars
Friday August 04, 2017 @12:50PM Electric Cars Are Not the Answer To Air Pollution, Says Top UK Adviser
Thursday July 27, 2017 @05:24PM Heavier Rainfall Will Increase Water Pollution In the Future
Tuesday July 04, 2017 @12:44PM Hanoi Plan To Ban Motorbikes By 2030 To Combat Pollution
Tuesday June 06, 2017 @07:39PM Google Maps Is Being Used To Track Air Pollution In Oakland and Other Cities
Monday May 01, 2017 @04:50PM India Aims To Make Every Car Electric By 2030 In Bid To Tackle Pollution
Friday April 21, 2017 @02:37PM Ocean Currents Are Sweeping Billions of Tiny Plastic Bits to the Arctic
Monday March 06, 2017 @11:45AM Pollution Responsible For a Quarter of Deaths of Young Children, Says WHO
Tuesday February 14, 2017 @02:07PM Around 2.2 Million Deaths in a Year in India and China From Air Pollution
Monday January 02, 2017 @08:16PM China Smog: Millions Start New Year Shrouded By Health Alerts and Travel Chaos
Monday November 07, 2016 @03:41PM India's New Delhi Now Most Polluted City on Earth, Air Quality Well Beyond 'Hazardous' Level
Thursday October 20, 2016 @10:57AM Stanford Researchers Release Virtual-Reality Simulation That Transports Users To Ocean of the Future
Sunday October 09, 2016 @02:15PM Germany Calls For a Ban On Combustion Engine Cars By 2030
Friday September 30, 2016 @11:38AM The Smog-Sucking Tower Has Arrived in China
Thursday September 29, 2016 @02:02PM 92% of the World's Population Exposed To Unsafe Levels of Air Pollution: WHO
Monday September 26, 2016 @11:11AM Planes, Trains, and Automobiles Have Become Top Carbon Polluters
Tuesday September 06, 2016 @09:59AM Toxic Air Pollution Particles Found In Human Brains
Thursday August 18, 2016 @08:12PM Flaming 'Blue Whirl' Could Be Used In Fuel Spill Cleanup
Thursday June 23, 2016 @02:19PM Volkswagen To Pay $10.2 Billion In Emissions Lawsuit
Saturday June 18, 2016 @12:06AM NASA Unveils Plans For Electric-Powered Plane
Monday June 06, 2016 @08:40PM NASA Satellite Finds 39 Unreported Sources of Toxic Air Pollution
Saturday May 21, 2016 @02:11PM The World's Largest Cruise Ship and Its Supersized Pollution Problem
Wednesday May 11, 2016 @06:44PM Renewables Fastest-Growing Energy Sources, Feds Say
Monday April 25, 2016 @03:26PM Does More Carbon Dioxide Mean Increased Crop Water Productivity?
Monday April 25, 2016 @09:54AM Nearly All New Diesel Cars Exceed Official Pollution Limits
Tuesday April 12, 2016 @02:34AM Over 80 Percent of China's Well Water Is Polluted
Sunday April 03, 2016 @06:51PM Mexico City Plans Car-Driving Ban To Fight Air Pollution
Tuesday March 29, 2016 @04:05PM Preterm Births Linked To Air Pollution Cost Billions In The US
Wednesday March 23, 2016 @02:38PM Rockefeller Fund Dumping Fossil Fuels, Hits Exxon On Climate Issues
Sunday March 13, 2016 @08:18PM Report: Science Can Now Link Climate Change To (Some) Extreme Weather
Friday March 11, 2016 @10:35PM Plastic-Eating Bacteria Could Help Clean Up Waste
Thursday March 10, 2016 @02:45PM Cautious Steps Toward Seabed Mining
Monday March 07, 2016 @10:26PM Forget "Bottom-up" Reporting of Emissions; Try an Atmospheric Monitoring System
Monday February 29, 2016 @01:47PM Autonomous Cars Could Be Worse For Carbon Emissions
Thursday February 25, 2016 @09:19PM Damage Report: LA Methane Leak Is One of the Worst Disasters In US History
Monday February 08, 2016 @07:52PM Carbon Dioxide From the Air Converted Into Methanol
Thursday January 28, 2016 @08:06PM Desktop 3D Printers Shown To Emit Hazardous Gases and Particles
Saturday January 23, 2016 @07:52PM China Likely Cut GHG Emissions In 2015
Sunday December 27, 2015 @09:25PM Giant Methane Leak in California Won't Be Capped For Months
Saturday November 28, 2015 @03:02PM How Bad of a World Are We Really Living In Right Now?
Thursday November 26, 2015 @11:54AM Tesla's NOx Problem: Model X Delay Explained?
Tuesday November 10, 2015 @12:19PM Global Temperature Set To Reach 1 Degree C Over Pre-Industrial Levels
Sunday November 08, 2015 @07:28PM VW Engineers Have Admitted Manipulating CO2 Emissions Data
Friday November 06, 2015 @07:29PM 3D Printed Objects Found Toxic To Fish Embryos
Thursday October 22, 2015 @09:05AM Noise Protests Close Paris Data Center
Tuesday October 13, 2015 @11:38AM Study Finds Higher Rates of Premature Birth Near Fracking Sites
Saturday August 01, 2015 @07:44PM Want To Fight Climate Change? Stop Cows From Burping
Monday July 20, 2015 @09:31PM Study: Living Near Fracking Correlates With Increased Hospital Visits
Thursday July 09, 2015 @10:20AM Catastrophic Chinese Floods Triggered By Air Pollution
Friday May 29, 2015 @05:43PM Land Art Park Significantly Reduces Jet Engine Noise Near Airport
Wednesday May 06, 2015 @11:39AM The World's Most Wasteful Megacity
Tuesday May 05, 2015 @11:05AM Recent Paper Shows Fracking Chemicals In Drinking Water, Industry Attacks It
Thursday April 23, 2015 @12:58PM Africa E-Waste Dump Continues Hyperbole War
Friday April 03, 2015 @05:26PM The Dystopian Lake Filled By the World's Tech Sludge
Sunday March 22, 2015 @03:15AM In Response to Pollution Spike, Paris Temporarily Halves Traffic By Decree
Sunday March 08, 2015 @11:10PM Chinese Government Takes Down Anti-Pollution Documentary "Under The Dome"
Sunday January 11, 2015 @02:20PM Nuclear Waste Accident Costs Los Alamos Contractor $57 Million
Sunday December 28, 2014 @10:37PM Trees vs. Atmospheric Carbon: A Fight That Makes Sense?
Thursday December 11, 2014 @04:33PM U.S. Passenger Vehicle Fleet Dirtier After 2008 Recession
Friday December 05, 2014 @10:13PM Pantry Pests Harbor Plastic-Chomping Bacteria
Friday November 28, 2014 @07:41PM France Wants To Get Rid of Diesel Fuel
Friday October 10, 2014 @06:31PM Antiperspirants Could Contribute to Particulate Pollution
Thursday September 25, 2014 @03:55PM Catch Oil Polluters With Open Source Tools Using the Homebrew Oil Testing Kit
Tuesday September 09, 2014 @09:11AM UN Study Shows Record-High Increases For Atmospheric CO2 In 2013
Tuesday September 09, 2014 @08:01AM How China's E-Waste Capital Is Trying To Clean Itself Up
Sunday September 07, 2014 @12:13PM Surprise! More Than Twice As Much Mercury In Environment As Thought
Monday September 01, 2014 @08:43AM Feds Want Nuclear Waste Train, But Don't Know Where It Would Go
Sunday August 10, 2014 @03:52PM Ask Slashdot: Can Tech Help Monitor or Mitigate a Mine-Flooded Ecosystem?
Thursday August 07, 2014 @08:21AM Man-Made "Dead Zone" In Gulf of Mexico the Size of Connecticut
Tuesday July 22, 2014 @12:40PM Fighting Climate Change With Trade
Tuesday July 08, 2014 @08:06AM IBM Tries To Forecast and Control Beijing's Air Pollution
Friday June 27, 2014 @06:31PM Air Pollution Can Disrupt Pollinating Insects By Concealing the Scent of Flowers
Monday June 23, 2014 @08:09PM UK Man Sentenced To 16 Months For Exporting 'E-Waste' Despite 91% Reuse
Monday June 23, 2014 @07:08PM Supreme Court Upholds Most EPA Rules On Greenhouse Gases
Friday May 23, 2014 @04:51PM Trillions of Plastic Pieces May Be Trapped In Arctic Ice
Monday May 12, 2014 @10:36AM Harvard Study Links Neonicotinoid Pesticide To Colony Collapse Disorder
Tuesday May 06, 2014 @08:46AM Chernobyl's Sarcophagus, Redux
Saturday May 03, 2014 @10:57PM How To Find Nearby Dark Skies, No Matter Where You Are
Sunday April 20, 2014 @06:13PM Biofuels From Corn Can Create More Greenhouse Gases Than Gasoline
Tuesday February 25, 2014 @10:44AM Navy Won't Investigate Nuclear Pollution At San Francisco's Treasure Island
Tuesday February 04, 2014 @10:33AM Australia OKs Dumping Dredge Waste In Barrier Reef
Friday January 31, 2014 @08:22PM When Cars Go Driverless, What Happens To the Honking?
Wednesday January 22, 2014 @10:25PM Up To a Quarter of California Smog Comes From China
Thursday December 05, 2013 @09:20AM The Status of the Fukushima Clean-Up
Wednesday December 04, 2013 @08:31AM Plastic Waste Threatens Marine Diversity
Sunday November 17, 2013 @02:06AM Fukushima Disaster Leads Japan To Backpedal On Emissions Pledge
Friday September 27, 2013 @06:13PM 'Zombie' Hormone Disruptors Rise From the Dead
Saturday September 21, 2013 @09:50AM PCBs Cause Birds To Sing a Different Tune
Wednesday September 11, 2013 @06:44PM Exxon Charged With Illegally Dumping Waste In Pennsylvania
Monday September 09, 2013 @11:50AM Fixing Fukushima's Water Problem
Wednesday September 04, 2013 @05:24PM Nuclear Trashmen Profit From Unprecedented US Reactor Shutdowns
Saturday June 08, 2013 @08:01PM Northern Hemisphere Pollution a Cause of '80s Africa Drought
Friday May 31, 2013 @05:57PM No, the Tesla Model S Doesn't Pollute More Than an SUV
Tuesday April 30, 2013 @08:36AM EPA Report That Lowers Methane-Leak Estimates Further Divides Fracking Camps
Tuesday March 12, 2013 @08:32AM China Using 'State Secrets' Label To Hide Pollution
Tuesday February 26, 2013 @09:09AM Six of Hanford's Nuclear Waste Tanks Leaking Badly
Friday February 22, 2013 @06:56PM Growing Public Unrest Leads China To Admit To 'Cancer Villages'
Sunday February 10, 2013 @03:30PM Over the Antarctic, the Smallest Ozone Hole In a Decade
Sunday February 10, 2013 @04:12AM In 2011, Fracking Was #2 In Causing Greenhouse Gas In US
Thursday January 17, 2013 @09:56AM NASA Releases Orbital Photos of Beijing's Air Pollution
Friday December 28, 2012 @08:01PM Drone Photos Lead to Indictment For Texas Polluters
Sunday December 23, 2012 @01:18AM Coral Reefs In Grave Danger, Say Climate Simulations
Monday September 10, 2012 @04:30AM China's Yangtze River Turns Red
Tuesday August 21, 2012 @11:02AM Rover Fuel Came From Russian Nuke Factory, But Supplies Running Low
Tuesday August 14, 2012 @08:44AM Electronic Retailers In Europe Now Required To Take Back Old Goods
Thursday August 09, 2012 @07:43AM US Is Finally Cleaning Up Agent Orange In Vietnam
Tuesday August 07, 2012 @07:42AM The Pacific Ocean Is Polluted With Coffee
Monday July 23, 2012 @01:46PM Finding Fault With Anti-Fracking Science Claims
Sunday May 13, 2012 @09:06PM High School Students Sue Federal Gov't Over Global Warming
Saturday April 21, 2012 @03:20PM Newspapers Pollute Less On E-Readers and Tablets
Saturday February 25, 2012 @12:04AM Cars Emit More Black Carbon Than Previously Thought
Sunday February 12, 2012 @10:31AM It's Not All Waste: The Complicated Life of Surplus Electronics In Africa