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 | Nov 17, 2015 | Climate, Data, Environmental Performance Index (EPI), Urbanization
Exploring urban sustainability data and metrics in Seoul, South Korea. What can data tell us about building greener cities? What sustainability indicators can be compared city-to-city? By Alisa Zomer, MEM’14, EPI Manager The Seoul subway has 18 train lines and...
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...
