by Angel Hsu | Feb 7, 2024 | Air quality, Data Visualization
#SmogStripes Reveal Which Cities are Making Progress on Clean Air By Angel Hsu, Chester Ling, and Diego Manya The news about this winter’s air pollution has largely centered on India and South Asia, and yet, as global climate patterns like El Nino contribute to poor...
by Ella Feathers | Feb 2, 2024 | Air quality, Featured, Publications
Air pollution is the leading environmental killer worldwide; its microeconomic impact, however, is not well understood. Our first publication of 2024 explores the relationship between consumer spending and ambient air pollution using data from Spain to help fill that...
by Ella Feathers | May 11, 2023 | Air quality, Featured
Season 2 of Energy Switch featuring DDL Director Angel Hsu is out now on PBS stations. Energy Switch brings together leading experts to have balanced, productive conversations about issues related to energy and the environment. In episode 5, “The Environmental...
by Ella Feathers | Apr 28, 2023 | Air quality, Featured, Policy
DDL director Dr. Angel Hsu has been appointed to serve a 2-year term on the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on the Future of Clean Air. The network of Global Future Councils was created to convene experts from academia, nonprofits, government, and the...
by Data-Driven Lab | Sep 24, 2020 | Air quality, Featured, Urban Environment and Social Inclusion Index, Urbanization
Air pollution is the leading environmental risk factor globally, claiming 4.2 million lives a year. Though 92 percent of the global population breathes unsafe air, the health effects of air pollution are clustered along lines of age, health, income levels, race and...
by Hannah Melville-Rea | Jul 22, 2020 | Air quality, Policy, Urban Environment and Social Inclusion Index
This article originally appeared on the Samuel Centre for Social Connectedness website. A slew of emerging research papers linking air pollution with exacerbated COVID-19 symptoms has brought new attention to air quality. However, air pollution should be a major...
