by Hannah Melville-Rea | Jul 22, 2020 | Air quality, Policy, Urban 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...
by Kate Logan | Nov 9, 2019 | Air quality, Data, Urbanization
Hanoi – a city typically known for its charming Old Quarter and mouth-watering pho – has recently attracted attention for a different reason: poor air quality. On September 29, the U.S. Embassy’s monitoring station in Hanoi registered hourly Air Quality Index (AQI)...
by Donald Mosteller | Jun 30, 2016 | Air quality, Environmental Performance Index (EPI), Featured, Indices, Policy, Remote Sensing
Above: A satellite image reveals air pollution blanketing the Korean Peninsula. Credit: GeoEye, Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/08/Asia_dust_2000-04-07.jpg) By: Don Mosteller, Research Fellow More than half of South Korea’s...
by Angel Hsu | Mar 6, 2016 | Air quality, Big data, China, Data
When it comes to our most pressing environmental challenges, much of the data needed to take effective action are missing. Water quality, recycling rates, toxic chemical exposures, land degradation – assessing these environmental issues is hampered by the lack of...
by Angel Hsu | Feb 24, 2016 | Air quality, Data, Environmental Performance Index (EPI), Featured
Photo by Nicolò Lazzati on Flickr.com. This post originally appeared on The Huffington Post. By Angel Hsu and Carlin Rosengarten Last year was the hottest year on record — and by a wide margin, too. By early summer atmospheric CO2 concentrations silently ticked...
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