Air Pollution

DENVER Colorado tightened its air quality regulations on Friday, requiring that at least 5% of the vehicles sold in the state by 2023 emit zero pollution. The state Air Quality Control Commission, which passed the rule on an 8-1 vote, said the requirement ap…

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If European countries complied with current World Health Organization air quality guidelines, it could prevent up to 11% of new childhood asthma cases each year, according to a new study. Overall, 33% of new asthma cases in the 18 European countries research…

Asthma deaths have increased by a third in a decade with extremely hot summers, air pollution and complacency all blamed for the sharp rise. More than 1,400 people died from an asthma attack last year, an eight per cent increase compared to 2017 and up 33 pe…

Lower air pollution levels saved an estimated 5,660 lives in New York State in 2012, compared to 2002 levels, according to a new study. Published in Environmental Research Letters, the studyled by Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Observatory atmospheric …

Fears that efforts to reduce air pollution could dramatically speed up the process of global warming have been allayed with the publication of a landmark new study. Scientists have long worried that air pollution, while having a devastating impact on human h…

To measure air pollution across the United States and other large areas, scientists rely on a patchwork of satellites. While effective at delivering big picture data, the system struggles to provide details on the amount of pollutants just above Earth's surf…

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Satellite images from NASA and the European Space Agency paint a sobering picture of wildfires burning across the Russian area of Siberia.  Fires are typical for this time of year in Siberia, but this summer is proving parti…

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Satellite images from NASA and the European Space Agency paint a sobering picture of wildfires burning across the Russian area of Siberia.  Fires are typical for this time of year in Siberia, but this summer is proving parti…

President Donald Trump slammed Baltimore as a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess” over the weekend in a series of racist tweets and suggested that he could fix the problems if only Democrats gave him a chance. “I am in a very beautiful oval shaped off…