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Pollution is warming the atmosphere through summer thunderstorm clouds, according to a computational study published May 10 in Geophysical Research Letters. 
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Decades of research into how much plastic litters the ocean, conducted by skimming only the surface, may in some cases vastly underestimate the true amount of plastic debris, according to an oceanographer.
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Painting roofs white and using light-coloured materials to surface roads and pavements would not only make cities cooler in summer, it would save the same amount of carbon as taking all the cars in the world off the roads for 50 years.
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A documentary titled 'The City Dark' shows how the nighttime sky is vanishing fast, erased by round-the-clock artificial lighting...
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Many of the particles in the atmosphere are produced by the natural world, and it is possible that plants have in recent decades reduced the effects of the greenhouse gases to which human activity has given rise.
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Traffic pollution's imprint may begin before birth as newborns with higher exposure show permanent genetic differences.
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For many marine animals, tiny pieces of plastic rubbish are a big problem.
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Childhood exposure to lead dust has been linked to lasting physical and behavioral effects, and now lead dust from vehicles using leaded gasoline has been linked to instances of aggravated assault two decades after exposure, according to researchers.
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Exposure to high levels of exhaust fumes, a particular type of air pollution caused by incomplete combustion of fuels like gasoline or diesel, during pregnancy was found to be “significantly associated” with attentional and behavioral problems when...
Keith Clark's curator insight,
August 22, 2014 8:13 AM
An article that highlights the dangers of exhaust fumes to a developing feotus, because not all mechanics are male the extra risk involved with pregnancy must be considered.
Of course the concern of teratogens for pregnant mothers is also prevalent for hazardous chemicals and there may be a requirement to employee a pregnant woman in another area of the business in order to mitigate risk to her and her unborn child.
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Edith Widder has spent a career studying sea creatures with the ability to make light — bioluminescence. Now she is using the phenomenon to fight pollution.
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Natural climate variability is extremely unlikely to have contributed more than about one-quarter of the temperature rise observed in the past 60 years, reports a pair of Swiss climate modellers in a paper published online today. Most of the observed warming — at least 74 % — is almost certainly due to human activity, they write in Nature Geoscience1.
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The world is now home to 7 billion people, each of whom contributes to the carbon emissions that are slowly cooking the globe. To find out how growing population affects our plans to deal with climate change, we talked with Princeton’s Robert Socolow, co-creator of one of the best models for thinking about how to prevent climate change.
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Photo: christine zenino (chrissy575) Flickr, CC BY Yes, you know that human activity is causing the global climate to change. But do you know exactly how we know this?
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