At a Glance Air pollution has contributed to 4.2 million premature deaths, according to report, the State of Global Air 2017.China and India were responsible for more than half of the 4.2 million global deaths attributed to air pollution in 2015. Air pollution is the leading environmental cause of death and 92 percent of the world’s population lives in areas with unhealthy air, according to a new report. In 2015, and a loss of 103 million healthy years of life,...

Standard tools are no longer capable of measuring the significant Sierra snowpack. (Screenshot via Veuer) There's so much snow in the West right now that scientists can't even measure it. Their tools simply don't work. "We're not even close," hydrologist Jeff Anderson told the Reno Gazette-Journal after sticking a tube Despite the scientists' struggle, the massive amounts of snow spell good news for the drought-strickenregion On March 1, automated snow measurement systemSNOTELrecorded 212 inches of snow at Slide Mountain. The...

At a Glance The risk of earthquakes in Oklahoma and southern Kansas now equal that of California.An increase in tremblors in Oklahoma is attributed to hydraulic fracturing, more commonly known as fracking. Oklahoma and southern Kansas's earthquake risk is now equal to that of California, with 3 million people at risk from man-induced tremblors, according to a new U.S. Geological Survey forecast released Wednesday. According to the , the agency noted that the increase in earthquakes in the region is...