Breathtaking: What Is PM2.5?

April 4, 2019 / activist360 / Leave a comment

Undark and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting visited seven countries on five continents, rich and poor, north and south, to examine the impacts of fine particulate pollution, which kills more than four million people annually.

Mosquito-Borne Diseases Could Reach Extra ‘One Billion People’ as Climate Warms

April 3, 2019 / activist360 / Leave a comment

By Daisy Dunne, Carbon Brief CC BY-NC 4.0 Nearly one billion people could face “their first exposure” to a host of mosquito-borne diseases by 2080 under extreme global warming, a study finds. Countries in Europe, including the UK, would be the most affected by the influence of extreme warming on diseases such as dengue fever,…

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The San Joaquin Valley: An Air Pollution Overview

April 1, 2019 / activist360 / Leave a comment

Drone footage examines some of the key sources of coarse and fine particulate pollution in Central California, which has some of the worst such pollution in the United States.