University of Delaware
4:26 p.m., June 11, 2013--The tornado that downed trees and damaged homes in Newark on Monday evening, June 10, was uncommon but not unprecedented, according to Delaware State Climatologist Daniel Leathers, who is also a professor of geography ...

PSFK
The Smart Citizen Kit is a crowdsourced environmental monitoring platform. By scattering devices around the world, the creators hope to build a global network of sensors that report local environmental conditions like CO and NO2 levels, light, noise, ...

Treehugger
It's almost impossible to talk about this project without going overboard on buzzwords, because the Smart Citizen Kit environmental monitoring platform is not only campaigning for funding at Kickstarter, it also has an open-source Arduino-compatible ...

Scientific American
A factory in Inner Mongolia. Tighter emissions policies in China's wealthier coastal provinces has pushed industry - and its emissions - inland to poorer areas with laxer rules. Image: Flickr/Bert van Dijk ...

Quartz
There's something murky about China's housing market—and it's not the pollution. By Jake Maxwell Watts — June 18, 2013. Average new home prices in 70 major Chinese cities rose 6 percent in May from a year earlier—a two year high, according to ...