Many agree that developing nations need help to cope with a warmer world. Some call the current effort a ‘placebo.’ There were high hopes in November when a global climate summit in Egypt adjourned with the creation of a fund to help poor countries cope with the ravages of global warming. But less than three …
Rich nations pledged to pay for climate damages. Where’s the money? Read More »
Grocery chains under pressure to switch from HFCs to natural refrigerants to curb climate change Climate-conscious shoppers may buy local food and try to cut packaging waste, but those efforts could be negated by potent greenhouse gases leaking from supermarket fridges. Refrigerants called hydrofluorocarbons or HFCs are widely used to keep food cold or frozen at …
How supermarket freezers are heating the planet, and how they could change Read More »
Tuberculosis (TB) is curable and preventable. Yet in 2021, around 1.6 million people died from the disease. Worldwide measles cases spiked by 79% in the first two months of 2022, despite a licensed vaccine against the disease being available since 1963. In refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, an outbreak of diphtheria – another disease preventable through vaccines – saw nearly …
The air in Mexico City was once so toxic that people watched as dead birds fell out of the sky. In 1992, the United Nations declared the city the most polluted in the world, with its unregulated diesel engines, factory production, fossil-fuel powered energy plants, and widespread use of internal-combustion engines, all trapped in a …
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Friday proposed a plan to tighten air pollution standards for the first time in a decade. The shift would aim to cut down on deadly particle pollution, otherwise known as soot, which is responsible for killing thousands yearly and disproportionately causing negative health …
