by Don 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 Rosengarten, Carlin | Jun 6, 2016 | Air quality, Data, Data Visualization, Featured
This post originally appeared in Scientific American. Image: Smog shrouds Beijing’s Forbidden City Credit: By Brian Jeffery Beggerly via Wikimedia Commonsunder Creative Commons license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 By Angel Hsu, David Wong,...
by Rosengarten, Carlin | Apr 4, 2016 | Air quality, China, Environmental Performance Index (EPI), Featured, India, Remote Sensing
This post originally appeared on World Economic Forum Agenda Forum. Photo credit: A hazy view of Shanghai, China By Aly Song/REUTERS This post was co-written and compiled by Carlin Rosengarten and Angel Hsu. As the world is becoming wealthier, the air we...
by AngelHsu | Mar 6, 2016 | Air quality, Big data, China, Data
When it comes to our most pressing environmental challenges, much of the data needed to take effective action are missing. Water quality, recycling rates, toxic chemical exposures, land degradation – assessing these environmental issues is hampered by the lack of...
by AngelHsu | 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 AngelHsu | Oct 9, 2015 | Air quality, Data, Featured
This post originally appeared on The Huffington Post. Beijing, the most liveable city in China? “The best joke all year,” said Weibo user Ren Fei. Not intended as a joke, Beijing emerged as the most liveable Chinese city in the Economist Intelligence Unit...
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