Sunshine Bookworld

08/26/2021

The most expensive book ever purchased was sold for $30.8 million.

05/05/2021

Each year 1.2 trillion gallons of untreated sewage, stormwater, and industrial waste are dumped into US water. While children make up 10% of the world's population, over 40% of the global burden of disease falls on them. More than 3 million children under age five die annually from environmental factors.

04/29/2021

How much pollution is in the world? Globally, 91% of the world population is exposed to unhealthy levels of pollution. For each country, this indicator shows the portion of the country's population living in places where the mean annual concentrations of PM2. 5 are greater than 10 micrograms per cubic meter.

04/20/2021

Each year 1.2 trillion gallons of untreated sewage, stormwater, and industrial waste are dumped into US water.

04/07/2021

03/05/2021

Each year 1.2 trillion gallons of untreated sewage, stormwater, and industrial waste are dumped into US water. While children make up 10% of the world's population, over 40% of the global burden of disease falls on them. More than 3 million children under age five die annually from environmental factors

07/04/2020

This week's photos feature Airmen around the globe involved in activities supporting expeditionary operations and defending America. This weekly feature showcases the men and women of the Air Force.

06/25/2020

The coronavirus is teaching China an expensive lesson in public health: there is a huge cost to poisoning your air. The virus that has killed more than 3,200 people in the country and threatens to wipe out US$2.7 trillion (S$3.9 trillion) from the global economy is raising questions about how decades of air pollution affected China's ability to control the spread of Covid-19 and minimise the number of critical cases.

06/24/2020

The support for California’s automobile emission waiver should be wavering. It once made some sense, but when it was repurposed from focusing on smog to focusing on greenhouse gas emissions, it made far less sense. Given that issue’s contentiousness today, it is worth revisiting.

When California was first granted a waiver from federal emission standards, there was a good reason. It was allowed because the Los Angeles region was particularly susceptible to smog as a result of a unique combination of geography and climate. And since such pollution is quite localized, that provided a good reason for stricter smog emission standards in the specific region where the problem was worse. In other words, effective regulation of local pollutants where they are worse could be more effectively done at a local level than at a national level.

06/20/2020

A former manager of a West Virginia laboratory that conducted water sampling for coal mining operations in the state has been sentenced to two years in prison for his role in forging data to show compliance with pollution discharge rules. This week, John Brewer, a former manager with Appalachian Laboratories, was sentenced to prison after he pleaded guilty in October to one count of falsifying water sample reports later filed with the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, a violation of the US Clean Water Act's standards for water sampling for mining operations, according to local reports.