Air pollution, gone with the wind: Proposed new building guidelines to clean up city air
Thursday, November 1, 2012 - 13:00
in Earth & Climate
As urban populations expand, downtown buildings are going nowhere but up. The huge energy needs of these skyscrapers mean that these towers are not only office buildings, they're polluters with smokestacks billowing out toxins from the rooftop. Our cities are dirtier than we think. New research just might clean them up.