by Beth Holmes | Feb 7, 2022 | Climate Change, Sustainability
Winter sports are facing a widespread difficulty this year – there’s not enough winter weather. The Alpine World Cup began in Beaver Creek, Colorado last December, a ski resort at almost a mile and a half elevation in the Rocky Mountains. Ordinarily in December,...
by Admin | Apr 4, 2014 | Articles, Climate Change, Environmental hazards
Air pollution has become the world’s single biggest environmental health risk, linked to around 7 million – or nearly one in eight deaths in 2012 – according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). The figures released by WHO are more than double previous...
by Admin | Feb 19, 2014 | Articles, Climate Change, Environmental hazards
Earlier this week, Chinese officials announced they are offering a total of 10 billion renminbi, or $1.65 billion, this year to cities and regions that make “significant progress” in air pollution control. The announcement of the financial incentives revealed how...
by Admin | Jan 27, 2014 | Articles, Environmental hazards
China’s latest export to the US is proving to be unpopular with the West Coast. According to new findings from researchers at UC Irvine, China’s smog, now infamous, is blowing all the way across the Pacific Ocean and onto American shores. The researchers make an...