Air pollution

We have all seen, and some of us have experienced, the fog that envelops you creating beautiful landscapes of the Golden Gate Bridge or a valley or forest shrouded in a grayness reducing visibility often to a matter of a few feet.

The air is nasty in Seattle today. A white smog has settled all over the city, as far as the eye can see.

An article published in Science on volatile chemicals has predictably entered the mainstream media featuring concerns about how we are polluting our planet more and more with household products.

From the CityLab website:

It doesn't matter how bad or wildly untrue an idea might be; it is a near certainty that one can find an academic somewhere who is willing to embrace it.

Every so often, the media likes to warn us that we're all dying from air pollution.

There is a theoretical relationship between a nation’s wealth and the amount of pollution it emits.

It's a given that the vitamins are necessary for life; but over the years there have been efforts to demonstrate that they also hold almost magical properties with respect to various diseases and conditions — think Linus Pauling with his theories

Inside Science reported last week on a presentation at the American Economic Asso

A new economic claim from the American Lung Association of California regarding Zero Emission Vehicles and their potential health b