13-11-17 To most people, noise pollution is a jet engine roaring over their head. For one Spanish woman, it was a neighbor playing the piano more softly than a spoken conversation. 西班牙一名钢琴家练琴被指扰民，受害人自称因噪音污染患上多种疾...

13-10-15 Air pollution is still continuing to damage European citizens' health and the environment, latest figures show. 最新数据显示，空气污染仍然在持续损害欧洲居民的健康与环境。 The European Environment Agency (EEA) listed tiny airborne particles and ozone...

13-07-14 A new study links heavy air pollution from coal burning to shorter lives in northern China. Researchers estimate that the half-billion people alive there in the 1990s will live an average of 5 years less than their southern counterparts because they...

13-07-13 More than two million deaths occur worldwide each year as a direct result of human-caused outdoor air pollution, a new study has found. In addition, while it has been suggested that a changing climate can exacerbate（加剧，恶化） the effects of air...

13-06-19 Women in the U.S. exposed to high levels of air pollution while pregnant were up to twice as likely to have a child with autism（孤独症） as women who lived in areas with low pollution, according to a new study from Harvard School of Public Health (...

13-06-15 Greenwashing (a compound word modelled on whitewash), or green sheen, is a form of spin in which green PR or green marketing is deceptively used to promote the perception that an organization's aims and policies are environmentally friendly. Whether...

13-06-07 Decades of drought in central Africa reached their worst point in the 1980s, causing Lake Chad, a shallow lake used to water crops in neighboring countries, to almost dry out completely. The shrinking lake and prolonged drought was initially blamed...

13-05-05 Breathing particulate-laden (aka smoggy) air may be hardening your arteries faster than normal, according to research published today in PLOS Medicine. 根据今日发表在《公共科学图书馆医学》杂志上的研究，呼吸含大量颗粒物的（雾霾）空气可能会让你的动脉...

13-04-08 A new study has found that pollution from fine particles in the air -- mainly the result of burning coal or volcanic eruptions -- can shade corals from sunlight and cool the surrounding water resulting in reduced growth rates. Although coral reefs g...

13-03-18 The scholars, including linguists and senior reporters, said the inclusion of words such as the basketball league NBA and PM2.5, a measure of air pollution, violated regulations covering the Chinese language, including the Law on the Standard Spoken...