Today’s air was classified as 'hazardous', referring to an alarming health risk to residents, according to the AQI index ...

The Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON) in Leiden presented a map on Friday showing fine particulate levels ...

A new study finds that short-term air pollution exposure harms brain function, reducing focus and emotion recognition.

Understanding Air Pollution and Its Global Impact Air pollution refers to harmful substances introduced into the atmosphere, ...

The devices work together to create a countywide heat map of air quality. The map is available ... the health department will be able to monitor different pollution sources in specific areas ...

Calculating air pollution from wildfires and other events has become more complicated. That doesn’t mean it’s necessarily more accurate.

The WHO estimates that 99% of the world’s population is exposed to pollution above recommended levels, with many cities in low- and middle-income countries having particularly bad air quality.

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 ...

Stubbornly persistent heat waves, record wildfires, and drastically changing wind and precipitation patterns all “alter the formation, duration and dispersion of air pollution,” notes a World ...

This invisible killer is the air pollution from sources like cars and trucks or factory smokestacks. But as wildfires intensify and grow more frequent in a warming world, the smoke from these ...