by Angel Hsu | Aug 6, 2014 | China, Data
This post originally appeared on China Dialogue. Despite the recent release of data on soil pollution, we are far from having the complete picture, argue Angel Hsu and Andrew Moffat. China’s release of a first nationwide soil pollution survey earlier this yearwas met...
by Angel Hsu | Jun 21, 2014 | China, Data
By Angel Hsu and William Miao. This post originally appeared on Scientific American. On March 17, the Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection and the Ministry of Land and Resources released the first-ever results of a nationwide soil pollution survey that took...
by Angel Hsu | Jun 15, 2014 | Air quality, Data, Data Visualization
(Hsu et al/The Atlantic) View full-screen mapBy Angel Hsu and Alisa Zomer. This post initially appeared on The Atlantic. In March, the World Health Organization estimated that air pollution was responsible for 7 million premature deaths in 2012. That’s one out of...
by Angel Hsu | Mar 31, 2014 | Big Data, Data, Policy
Check out our policy commentary, “Development: Mobilize citizens to track sustainability” on Nature.com and in the April 3 print edition of Nature, vol. 508. Also, check out the amazing infographic Anne Householder created to accompany the...
by Angel Hsu | Mar 27, 2014 | Data, Data Visualization, Environmental Performance Index (EPI)
This blog was originally posted on The Metric. It was co-written with Amy Weinfurter, MEM’15 at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Which countries have the reputation for being the most ‘environmentally-friendly,’ and does the perception...
by Angel Hsu | Feb 19, 2014 | Big Data, Data
I participated as a panelist for a Guardian podcast on whether Big data is a friend or foe of sustainability. Check out the article here and the podcast recording below.
