MACH Engineering reports that industrial air pollution harms economies by increasing healthcare costs and reducing productivity, impacting agriculture and infrastructure.
As Utah families welcomed children in the 1970s and ’80s, many were living just miles from smelters, refineries, mines and manufacturing plants — which were quietly releasing toxins into the air.
For decades, noxious, cancer-causing gases poured from some of the nation’s largest industrial polluters, seeping invisibly from cracks in antiquated pipes or billowing out of smokestacks in plumes ...
New research co-authored by Duncan Watson-Parris of UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute finds that industrial pollution in Earth’s colder ...
Factory pollution is changing the weather—but not in the way you might think. The tiny aerosol pollution particles poured out by industrial factories can trigger ice to form in the atmosphere, ...