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2018 Environmental Performance Index: Air quality top public health threat

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Now in its twentieth year, the biennial report is produced by researchers at Yale and Columbia Universities in collaboration with the World Economic Forum. India and Bangladesh come in near the bottom of the rankings, with Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Nepal rounding out the bottom five. 2018 EPI Trends.

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Researchers Finds Lake Tanganyika Has Experienced Unprecedented Warming Over Last Century

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A team of researchers led by Brown University has found that Lake Tanganyika in east Africa—the second-oldest and the second-deepest lake in the world—has experienced unprecedented warming in the last century. A paper on their work was published online 16 May in the journal Nature Geoscience. Resources.

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