Tag: lung disease

  • Study: The Dark Side of Forest Carbon Sequestration

    Sci­ence has taught us that humans and trees have a sym­bi­ot­ic rela­tion­ship: humans and oth­er liv­ing crea­tures exhale car­bon diox­ide, which trees absorb to pro­duce oxy­gen, which we then breathe. It’s a per­fect cir­cle that main­tains life on Earth as we know it. But a recent study out of Rhode Island’s Miska­ton­ic Uni­ver­si­ty has iden­ti­fied…

  • Biomass Combustion: Harmful on any Scale

    - by Cathy Baiton, Only Clean Air In the same way that indus­tri­al bio­mass com­bus­tion can seri­ous­ly jeop­ar­dize pub­lic health and the envi­ron­ment in com­mu­ni­ties, res­i­den­tial and small­er-scale com­mer­cial bio­mass burn­ing also have adverse impacts on health and air qual­i­ty in neighborhoods. In many cities and towns, increased wood burn­ing, both indoor and out­door, has become a…


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