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Air Pollution

Onion News: China Celebrates Status as #1 Air Polluter

A new report from the Onion News Network highlights China’s reaction to the fact that it is now the world’s top producer of air pollution, with the Chinese Ambassador to the United States calling the smog levels a “grand symbol of Chinese supremacy”. A celebration currently going on in China includes the 100 Widow Smog [...]

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Book Review: Smogtown – The Lung-Burning History of Pollution in Los Angeles

If you think the air is bad in Los Angeles right now, you probably didn’t live there for much of the past century. When the thick, view-obscuring gray haze first appeared in the city on July 26th, 1943, nobody knew quite what to think of it. Was some factory suddenly spewing tons of pollution in [...]

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So Much for Less Traffic Pollution in Beijing

Last summer, Beijing surprised us all when the city actually managed to reign in air pollution by removing thousands of cars from the streets (and temporarily shuttering certain nearby factories) during the Olympics. The program was so successful, the Chinese government decided to keep it going, actually paying drivers to give up their cars. Unfortunately, [...]

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How to Grow Your Own Fresh Air

You can dramatically increase the health of the air in your home, office buildnig or business with just a few plants. Research has shown that with only three varieties of plants, we can “grow our own fresh air” in indoor environments – the Areca palm, Mother-in-Law’s Tongue and the Money Plant.
This idea was tested at [...]

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InterIntel Working to Bring Environmental Solutions to Haiti

Daniel Schnitzer, Co-Founder and Director of Project Management at InterIntel.org explains why he started an organization to democratize sustainability in Haiti.

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Cleaner Air Has Added 5 Months to US Life Span

Average life expectancy in the United States has increased by five months thanks to cleaner air over the past two decades, according to a federally funded study. Americans’ average life span increased almost three years to 77 between 1978 and 2001. It’s the first study to show that air quality as an effect of life [...]

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