I n 1989, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) published a promising study claiming that houseplants purify indoor air. Its results suggested that certain comm ...

The idea of plants having purifying powers comes from the 1989 Clean Air Study conducted by NASA, which found that certain plants removed health-harming pollutants from indoor environments.

Dear Eartha, I love plants and have quite the collection at home. Does taking care of all these plants help curb my ...

NASA's estimate ... fossil fuels by power plants and other industrial facilities is the largest source of sulfur dioxide in the atmosphere. While this means cleaner air, fewer atmospheric aerosols ...

This past weekend the landscape completely transformed - from rain-soaked and ice-covered bare earth to the clean slate of a fresh coat of snow. Snow on the ground, or the lack thereof, can have ...

A 2024 study commissioned ... Nuclear plants can cost billions, though estimates vary for the small nuclear reactors. “Apart from the danger of nuclear waste, defining nuclear as clean is ...

Residents were left to bake in the sticky summer heat, the air heavy with chemicals released by nearby refineries and petrochemical plants that ... Credit: NASA Earth Observatory Once the ...

Not too shabby for NASA leftovers, mind you. Aguilar told me that the Plantaform's fog-based watering technology was originally developed (then ditched) by the administration as a way to grow plants ...