Specialized air quality instruments captured a spike in lead, chlorine, and bromine pollution during the L.A. wildfires.

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Experts are starting to warn against air pollution, urging global leaders to act quickly before health concerns take more ...

A study led by researchers from the University of Virginia has used satellite measurements to show the long-term persistence ...

"While our findings suggest that lead poisoning from background air pollution was not acute especially compared to other exposure routes such as drinking water from lead pipes, lead table wares ...

Thai authorities have made travel by public transport in Bangkok free for a week, the latest tactic to try to tackle soaring ...

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"This background lead pollution in air and soil may have been the most significant exposure route in rural, non-elite populations." No amount of lead in the blood or body is safe, but the higher the ...

Wildfires contribute to harmful fine particle pollution, which is at levels bad for human health in the area even before the wildfires. The American Lung Association’s State of the Air report ...

McConnell acknowledges this limitation. “It would be great if going forward the linkages between background air pollution, childhood blood lead levels, and health were better quantified,” he says.