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Green City Solutions fights air pollution with IoT, biotech and moss

Green Tech Challenge

In December 2016, the Chinese government reported the highest air pollution and the red alert was implemented in 23 cities in northern China. In 2016, World Energy Outlook made a study on air pollution as the fourth-largest threat to human health – but also to our environment.

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Geoengineering’s gender problem could put the planet at risk

Grist

The hardware test was part of a bigger plan to see if strategically releasing aerosols might help cool the planet by reflecting sunlight. According to a TIAA Institute study published in 2016, fewer than one in 10 women faculty are full professors. Working from a disused military airstrip in Norfolk, U.K.,

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