Home fireplaces and wood stoves are quietly driving a large share of winter air pollution, even though only a small number of households rely on wood heat. Researchers found that wood smoke accounts ...

Take a brief walk outside and you're likely to encounter a wide range of things that could influence your health—the sunlight ...

Understand isokinetic sampling in unidirectional airflow to support accurate particle monitoring and cleanroom compliance.

CT's air quality had improved over 50 years of increasingly rigorous federal regulations and enforcement. That progress is ...

Regarding the article “Report: City’s no breath of fresh air” (March 26): As a Chicago physician, I see every day how air quality affects human health. Clean air is not a luxury — it is a basic ...

Air pollution caused 182,000 deaths in the EU in 2023, with most urban residents exposed to unsafe levels. The EU is tightening guidance through the new Cancer Code, urging both policy reform and ...

In October 1948, a thick haze rolled into Donora, Pennsylvania, a steel town in the Monongahela Valley, south of Pittsburgh. For five days, toxic fumes from a zinc smelter – a plant that turns zinc ...

In the 1990s and 2000s, as China’s economy steamed ahead, concerns about pollution were ignored. Air quality was poor and smog blanketed cities. But in 2014, partly because of popular discontent, the ...

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A new United Nations report has raised concerns over Turkey’s air pollution levels, highlighting that the country’s legally allowed pollution thresholds remain far above World Health Organization (WHO ...

A United Nations expert warned Friday that air pollution is contributing to widespread human rights violations worldwide, calling on governments to take urgent action to reduce pollution and protect ...