Air Pollution

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As extreme heat and air pollution become more common, researchers are developing new ways to track how these environmental exposures affect people in real time. Credit: Stock A pilot study found that wearable devices and GPS tracking can reveal real-time health effects from heat and air pollution, opening new possibilities…

After eliminating the electric vehicle tax credit, rolling back fuel economy standards and blocking California’s stringent vehicle emissions rules, the Trump administration is now citing slowed electric vehicle growth as its rationale for loosening automobile air pollution standards. In a rulemaking proposal released Friday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced…

Nearly half the nation’s children live in places with dangerous levels of air pollution, according to a report released Wednesday by the American Lung Association. That’s 33.5 million children — 46 percent of the country’s kids — living in areas with failing grades for at least one measure of air…

This story was originally published by the Guardian a nd is reproduced here as part of the  Climate Desk  collaboration. Nearly half of children in the United States are breathing dangerous levels of air pollution, according to a new report, as experts warned Donald Trump’s expansive rollback of protections will…

High-risk areas are concentrated in townships and informal settlements, including Khayelitsha, Crossroads, Philippi and Gugulethu. A new study at the University of Cape Town (UCT) has produced the first high-resolution map of air pollution across the Cape Town metropolitan area. Its findings reveal a troubling reality: more than 40% of…

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 29: A group of people wear face masks to protect against air pollution as they walk past the U.S. Supreme Court Building on June 29, 2023 in Washington, DC. The Washington DC region is under a "Code Red" air quality alert today due to smoke from…

THE Union for International Cancer Control has revealed that long-term exposure to air pollution significantly increases the risk of developing and dying from cancer. The union said that this underscored an urgent need for stronger environmental and public health policies. The finding is contained in a new global report titled…

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Scientific fieldwork does not always go as planned. Researchers often set out with a clear goal, but sometimes the data leads them somewhere unexpected. That is exactly what happened during a University of Colorado Boulder field study in an agricultural region of Oklahoma. The team was using advanced instruments to…