A team of university researchers has launched a planned 10-year project to examine pollution from Los Angeles' recent wildfires and study its long-term impacts on health. The researchers ...

The legacy of sleep sounds, white noise has lulled people to sleep for ages. Because white noise encompasses all of the ...

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This RC boat is designed to autonomously monitor water pollution parameters in real-time while being remotely controlled. It integrates sensors for temperature, turbidity, and pH level measurements, ...

The state will no longer require some truckers to shift away from diesel semis but hopes that subsidies can keep dreams of pollution-free big rigs alive. At a conference in Boston, the nation’s ...

Haze comes from a variety of sources. Your skies may be hazy from local traffic, or industry such as for example coal burning power plants, or the pollution may be coming in from somewhere else ...

Mosab Abu Toha’s recent volume of poetry, Forest of Noise (Knopf 2024), has excited much complimentary attention as a representative voice from Gaza’s destroyed streets. It has inspired immoderate ...

A historian looks at Lahore as a case-study to see how his hometown has systematically lost its connection to its many-splendoured Published 02 Feb, 2025 09:17am ...

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