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 | Climate, Environmental Performance Index (EPI)
This post originally appeared on Scientific American. Photo credit: A forest in Madagascar has been slashed and burned for planting corn By Frank Vassen/Flickr under Creative Commons license. This post was co-written and compiled by Don Mosteller, Amy Weinfurter, and...
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...
by Angel Hsu | Sep 30, 2014 | Data, Policy, Sustainability
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...
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...
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