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04/21/2018 / By Isabelle Z.

City life is KILLING humanity: 95% of humans living today are breathing polluted air, mostly from cities

Even if you don’t have any unhealthy habits, something that you do every day could be killing you: breathing. A new report from the Health Effects Institute shows that more than 95 percent of the people on our planet are breathing in air that is unsafe. Unfortunately, it’s those who live in the poorest communities […]

07/21/2017 / By Jhoanna Robinson

DIESEL engines now cleaner for the environment than gas engines

An international study that was published on Monday, July 17 in the journal Scientific Reports showed that modern diesel cars release fewer carbonaceous particulate matter (PM) into the air than vehicles which use gasoline engines. The study, which was conducted by researchers in Norway and Switzerland with the help from colleagues in France, Italy, and the […]

05/11/2017 / By S.D. Wells

Diesel fumes’ nanoparticles cause heart disease by just BREATHING polluted city air

Similar to how cigarette smokers suffer health consequences from the toxins that are carried into the lungs on particles of tobacco, a recent study has shown that tiny nanoparticles carry black carbon diesel fumes into the lungs of people who are exposed to them. Diesel fumes, commonly pushed into the atmosphere via the exhaust from heavy-duty trucks, […]

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