Air quality isn’t just bad in cities – here’s why and how we’re tracking pollution from upland fires

How a new monitoring system improves fire detections and captures the air pollution effects of planned peatland burns.

Maria Val Martin, UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, Atmospheric Sciences, University of Sheffield • conversation
June 30, 2025 • ~8 min

What Trump’s budget proposal says about his environmental values

The White House proposal represents a dramatic retreat from the national goals of clean air and clean water enacted in federal laws over the past 55 years.

Janet McCabe, Visiting Professor and Distinguished Scholar of Law, Visiting Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University • conversation
June 27, 2025 • ~12 min

Appliance efficiency standards save consumers billions, reduce pollution and fight climate change

About 40% of total US energy consumption is used by household and industrial appliances, such as heating and cooling systems, refrigerators and lighting.

David J. Vogel, Professor Emeritus of Business Ethics and Political Science, University of California, Berkeley • conversation
April 17, 2025 • ~10 min

How windfalls from commodity price booms come back to bite exporters

Oil exporters have made hay with high prices, but their environments have borne the costs.

Lotanna Emediegwu, Senior Lecturer in Economics, Manchester Metropolitan University • conversation
April 9, 2025 • ~6 min

As federal environmental priorities shift, sovereign Native American nations have their own plans

Tribal governance takes a long view based in Native peoples’ deep history with these lands.

Alyssa Kreikemeier, Assistant Professor of History, University of Idaho • conversation
March 28, 2025 • ~11 min

America’s clean air rules boost health and the economy − here’s what EPA’s new deregulation plans ignore

Clean air has become one of America’s best investments, returning $10 for every $1 spent on regulations, by one estimate.

Richard E. Peltier, Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, UMass Amherst • conversation
March 12, 2025 • ~9 min

Clean air rules boost US health and the economy − charts show what EPA’s new deregulation plans ignore

Clean air has become one of America’s best investments, returning $10 for every $1 spent on regulations, by one estimate.

Richard E. Peltier, Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, UMass Amherst • conversation
March 12, 2025 • ~9 min

America’s clean air rules have boosted health and the economy − here’s what EPA’s deregulation spree ignores

Clean air has become one of America’s best investments, returning $10 for every $1 spent on regulations, by one estimate.

Richard E. Peltier, Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, UMass Amherst • conversation
March 12, 2025 • ~9 min

How AI is making affordable air pollution sensors more accurate

Small air sensors that harness the power of AI could transform pollution monitoring.

Farzana Rahman, Senior Lecturer, MSc Data Science Course Leader, Kingston University • conversation
March 12, 2025 • ~6 min

What’s that microplastic? Advances in machine learning are making identifying plastics in the environment more reliable

To deal with microplastic pollution, it helps agencies to know what kind of plastic they’ve got on their hands.

Ambuj Tewari, Professor of Statistics, University of Michigan • conversation
March 6, 2025 • ~8 min

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