by Sarah DeWeerdt | Jul 18, 2017
Current science textbooks and government documents about climate change are promoting relatively ineffective strategies for individuals to reduce their personal carbon footprint, according to an analysis published last week in Environmental Research Letters. Moreover,... 
by Sarah DeWeerdt | Jul 11, 2017
A form of air pollution known as particulate matter may be decreasing the production of solar energy by up to 25 percent in some regions, according to calculations recently published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology Letters. Particulate matter... 
by Sarah DeWeerdt | Jun 27, 2017
The world as a whole is getting hotter, and the cities where an ever-growing fraction of the global population lives are getting hotter still due to the urban heat island effect—the tendency for cities to be warmer than surrounding rural areas because building... 
by Sarah DeWeerdt | Jun 20, 2017
Researchers from the University of Bath in England have developed biodegradable, plant-based microbeads that could one day replace the plastic version in a variety of consumer products. Microbeads, tiny spheres of plastic less than half a millimeter in diameter, are... 
by Sarah DeWeerdt | Jun 13, 2017
Fighting climate change requires action both by individuals—such as reducing household electricity use—and by governments—such as implementing a tax on carbon emissions. Neither approach will be sufficient on its own. Frustratingly, however, when individuals take... 
