Measured Insights
The latest blog posts from our research projects.
China’s ‘Silent Spring’?
A new documentary on China's air pollution problem by a former CCTV journalist has gripped the Chinese public and is forcing the government to own up to the severity of its environmental challenge. If you haven't seen it already, a new 103-minute documentary Under the...
PM2.5 targets alone won’t solve China’s smog problem
This post originally appeared on China Dialogue. The photo is by Han Zun Zeng on Flickr.com. China’s leaders drafting the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-2020) should remember that targets are only one tool for tackling air pollution. As China’s policymakers mull the...
5 Things UN Negotiators Should Do to Ensure the SDGs Are Measurable
This post was co-written with Whitney Johnson, a Master of Environmental Management (MEM'16) candidate at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. It originally appeared on Huffington Post. What can be done to ensure that countries can both measure and...
Making Sense of 'Non-State' Climate Actions: NRDC and Oxford Host Workshop to Discuss Global Platform
With countries aiming to negotiate a new global climate deal by the end of 2015, there are concerns as to whether such an agreement will be sufficiently ambitious to prevent dangerous global temperature rise. Such ambition hinges not only upon national government...
China's soil pollution crisis still buried in mystery
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...
Soil Pollution in China Still a State Secret Despite Recent Survey
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...
Interactive Air-Pollution Map
(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...
Meitu, Chinese photo app, says "Goodbye to smog & embrace the blue skies!"
My friend Yang Chu alerted me to a recent update Meitu, the most popular Chinese photo-editing app, has made. It now includes a "desmog" filter that one can apply to photos to allow an embrace of "blue skies." I tested the app using several photos of smog in China,...
Seeking the Signal Through the Noise: Public seminar at Yale
Here's a link to a public lecture I delivered on April 9, 2014.
WNPR's Where We Live: How Clean is Our Air?
On April 3, 2014 I participated in a WNPR podcast 'Where We Live' to talk about air pollution. Here's a link to the podcast.
