by faster | Nov 6, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: Scientific American DATE: November 6, 2020 SNIP: The space industry is growing and innovating at a pace not seen since the days of the moon landings. Fifty years ago, nearly everything related to space was a government-sponsored project. In 21st-century space,...
by faster | Apr 15, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: Inside Climate News DATE: April 15, 2020 SNIP: Sweeping aside a broad body of evidence that air pollution is killing as many as 52,100 Americans prematurely each year, the Trump administration on Tuesday rejected government scientists’ recommendation...
by faster | Mar 22, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: Bloomberg DATE: March 22, 2019 SNIP: Oil byproducts from a damaged storage facility contaminated the Houston Ship Channel and created a cloud of cancer-causing benzene over the waterway, the latest mutation of one of the worst Gulf Coast chemical disasters in...
by faster | Mar 12, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: March 12, 2019 SNIP: The number of early deaths caused by air pollution is double previous estimates, according to research, meaning toxic air is killing more people than tobacco smoking. The scientists used new data to estimate that nearly...
by faster | Oct 29, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian, WHO DATE: October 29, 2017 SNIP: Poisonous air is having a devastating impact on billions of children around the world, damaging their intelligence and leading to hundreds of thousands of deaths, according to a report from the World Health...