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Posted on: September 21, 2016 | By Mike Booth
With so much attention paid to springtime allergies—the blooms! The sneezing! The incessant TV spots featuring over-the-counter remedies!—it’s hard to remember that fall is a prime allergy season, too. In fact, ragweed, a common culprit for all that sneezing and wheezing, blooms from mid-August until the first cold snap in the Midwest and East. And, […]
Posted on: September 14, 2016 | By Mike Booth
Here’s one for the books. Law books, that is. Environmentalists in the Netherlands have taken an extreme step to call attention to ongoing pollution concerns: They are suing the government. According to their lawsuit, air pollution levels in the Netherlands exceed normal standards and thus harm people. They claim this, in turn, infringes on basic […]
Posted on: September 7, 2016 | By Mike Booth
After all the medals and triumph and glory and interminable commercial sponsorship breaks, the 2016 Summer Olympics are finally over. And while NBC focused a great deal of attention on prepackaged and heartwarming stories of perseverance and dedication, print news media covered some of the more alarming aspects of Rio de Janeiro being thrust onto […]
Posted on: August 24, 2016 | By Mike Booth
The City of Lights isn’t always—sometimes the pollution is so dense that it’s hard to see all that famed twinkling. Indeed, Paris has a real air quality problem, so much so that the local government has taken unusual steps. The mayor of Paris has banned all cars made prior to 1997 from the city center […]
Posted on: August 17, 2016 | By Linda ONeill
Regular readers of this blog (and if you’re not a regular reader, why aren’t you?) know that we’ve addressed the link between poor air quality and impaired thinking. If you recall, various studies conducted in controlled settings showed that increases in CO2 levels and stale air of office environments suppressed test scores of people doing […]
