Mon Oct 21 2024
The aviation sector needs to work fast to address its impact on the environment. A small conference in Bristol brought together technologists, climate scientists, policy makers and...
Mon Sep 02 2024
Dutch airline KLM received a final warning for repeatedly violating overnight flight departure rules designed to minimize noise disturbances.
Fri Aug 09 2024
Residents near Sydney’s new international airport have vented their anger over looming disruption from flight paths...
Wed Aug 07 2024
Individuals’ sensitivity to climate hazards is a central component of their vulnerability to climate change. In this paper, we introduce and outline the utility of a new...
Passenger planes and private jets flying at higher altitudes can produce longer-lasting contrails, indicating that their impact on global warming may have been underestimated.
Tue Jul 30 2024
The chair of the Hanscom Field Advisory Commission, Chris Eliot, urged Massport to reject developers Runway Realty Ventures...
Thu Jul 25 2024
Hundreds of thousands of people are affected by plane noise around Frankfurt. It gets louder during holiday seasons. In response, local initiatives are targeting short-haul flights
Tue Jun 25 2024
A new study by green group Transport & Environment (T&E) suggests that thousands of cases of high blood pressure, diabetes and dementia across Europe could be linked to the tiny...
Mon May 27 2024
New federal tax credits aim to dramatically increase national production of alternative jet fuels from biofuels...
Wed May 22 2024
In October 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a final endangerment finding that leaded aviation gasoline (avgas) contributes to air pollution...
Fri Apr 19 2024
Researchers have identified concentrations of ultrafine particles in Bedford neighborhoods that may be connected to aircraft operations at Hanscom Field...
Wed Apr 17 2024
Experts describe ways to turn down the volume, from earbuds to smartphone apps that detect harmful noise levels...
Tue Apr 09 2024
Aviation accounts for 2.5% of global CO₂ emissions. But it has contributed around 4% to global warming to date...
Wed Mar 06 2024
Diana Gilman-Ford doesn’t like to fly. She hasn’t been on a plane since the late nineteen-nineties, and even then, she didn’t make it off the ground. While the plane was still on the tarmac...
Thu Feb 15 2024
Building an accessible global database to support advocacy.
Fri Nov 17 2023
A researcher has been looking for evidence of past air pollution in the mud of ponds in Merseyside.
Thu Oct 26 2023
This study reports the novel finding that airport ice control products contain phosphorus, and runoff of these products contributes to phosphorus loading in airport-adjacent waterways...
Fri Jul 14 2023
Environmental group studying air quality around Tweed New Haven airport.
Fri Jun 09 2023
Approximately 100 San Fernando Valley residents gathered at Van Nuys City Hall on Tuesday night to express concerns about noise and pollution from Van Nuys Airport.
Wed Apr 19 2023
Communities near Seattle-Tacoma International Airport are suing the Port of Seattle, Alaska Air, and Delta Airlines for allegedly emitting toxic pollutants and failing to address the issue...
Wed Sep 14 2022
Mobility reductions following the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States were higher, and sustained longer, for aviation than ground transportation activity. We evaluate changes...
Thu Jun 16 2022
For decades, airplanes at Reid-Hillview Airport in Silicon Valley have used fuel containing lead, a toxic substance many assumed was long banned. This isn't unique to Reid-Hillview...
Wed Aug 11 2021
Commercial airport activity can adversely impact air quality in the vicinity of airports, and millions of people live close to major airports in the United States. Because of these potential...
Wed Jun 23 2021
Fuel efficiency of jet aircraft has been increasing right from the dawn of jet aviation in the late ’50 s and early ’60 s. This improvement cannot be attributed...
Sun Jun 20 2021
The focus of this paper is to find out the impact made by aircraft on the environment of Europe. In this paper, we will focus on how far aircraft are influencing and contaminating the environment.
Tue May 18 2021
This study established that Entebbe International Airport experiences irregular noise frequencies with the midday having the highest noise intensities. Carbon dioxide was recorded at higher...
Wed Dec 11 2019
DEOHS-led study finds communities around Sea-Tac Airport are exposed to a unique mix of air pollution associated with aircraft.
Wed Apr 19 2017
Aviation activity accounted for up to a 10-fold increase TSP mass concentration. Elemental analysis showed that aircraft emissions are the dominant source of PM. Particle number concentrations...
Fri Apr 17 2015
Air pollutant emissions from aircraft have been subjected to less rigorous control than road traffic emissions, and the rapid growth of global aviation is a matter of concern in relation to human...
Mon Oct 20 2014
Airport operations cause an increase in ground-level pollution. Chemical and physical properties of the emitted gases and particles are reviewed.
