Air Pollution

Air pollution choking New Delhi has ground outdoor work to a halt and disrupted air travel in the Indian capital. Residents ...

Pollution from Thane, Panvel adding to Mumbai's bad air: High Court

Bombay High Court linked Mumbai's air quality to pollution from neighboring places, urging authorities to consider cross-boundary measures. | Mumbai news ...

The Invisible Threat: US States With Best and Worst Air Quality Rankings

Fine particulate pollution levels across California, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois and Ohio rank worst nationwide, while Wyoming, Hawaii and New Hampshire maintain the cleanest air. Only three ...

Air pollution distracts insects from pollination and sex

Even at levels safe for humans, air pollution can disrupt the way some insects communicate with plants, and with each other.

Study ties up to 12.5% of Pittsburgh area adult deaths to air pollution

Air pollution in the Pittsburgh region was linked to as many as 12.5% of adult deaths in 2019, according to a study published ...

CAQM reviews toll plaza congestion, calls for multi-lane systems to curb pollution

The CAQM also reviewed regional air quality trends and measures to strengthen monitoring and enforcement. It approved the expansion of the Continuous Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Station (CAAQMS) ...
Scientific American

EPA faces lawsuit over scrapping the ‘endangerment finding,’ a pillar of climate regulation

Medical and environmental groups are challenging the EPA’s decision to break with the longstanding scientific evidence that climate change endangers human health ...
The New York Times

Tracking Air Pollution by Neighborhood in New York City

Air pollution and health outcomes vary by geography, but patterns in the city can be surprising. By Akiva Blander In New York City, air pollution is unevenly distributed among the city’s neighborhoods ...
The Conversation

What air pollution does to the human body

Jenni Shearston has received funding from the National Institutes of Health. I grew up in rural Colorado, deep in the mountains, and I can still remember the first time I visited Denver in the early ...
The Conversation

How China cleaned up its air pollution – and what that meant for the climate

Delhi: 442. Lahore: 334. Beijing: 16. These are the levels of PM 2.5, one of the principle measures for air pollution, on November 19. As Pakistanis and Indians struggle with hazardous air quality, in ...
The New York Times

An Escape From India’s Air Pollution for Those Who Can Afford It

Companies are offering much-needed, but expensive, air purification systems to shelter from the smog in one of the world’s most polluted cities. Workers assembling YOGA Clean Air units in a factory in ...
ProPublica

The EPA Let Companies Estimate Their Own Pollution Levels. We Discovered Real Emissions Are Far Worse.

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