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 | 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 | Feb 20, 2012 | Air quality, China, Remote Sensing
This post originally appeared on China Dialogue. The Great Wall may not, after all, be visible from space – but Chinese air pollution is. A team of researchers at Battelle Memorial Institute and Columbia University, in collaboration with Yale University, recently...
by AngelHsu | Feb 16, 2011 | Air quality, China, Data, Remote Sensing
Thank you to all who read my previous post, “Chinese NGO releases Air Quality Transparency Index,” and to those have provided some excellent feedback and food for thought. In further exploring the link between information transparency and environmental...
by AngelHsu | Dec 3, 2010 | Data, Remote Sensing
While climate negotiators were busy discussing the role of forests in the Cancun climate negotiations, Google was launching its Earth Engine – a practical tool to help countries obtain information about their forests, which are critical carbon sinks, easily and...
by AngelHsu | Sep 28, 2010 | China, Remote Sensing
Canadian scientists Aaron van Donkelaar and Randall Martin at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, have created a map of global PM 2.5 (air particulates with diameters 2.5 microns or less, which is less than 1/3 the width of a strand of human...
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