Air Pollution

Flames rise from an experimental forest fire in Canada's remote Northwest Territories. Credit: Stefan Doerr via Immageo, CC BY-ND 3.0 A new study shows that air pollutants from the smoke of fires from as far as Canada and the southeastern U.S. traveled hundreds of miles and several days to reach…

Changes in the climate, air pollution and occupational health hazards are some of the causes for the increase in lung diseases among people, say pulmonologists. However, without a registry on the causes, there are no yardsticks to measure what kind of disease…

The U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), the Trump administrations trade deal, passed 89-10 in the Republican-controlled Senate on Thursday with one high-profile defection: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. Schumer, who as late as last month said he was…

Credit: University of Colorado at Boulder Oil and gas production has doubled in some parts of the United States in the last two years, and scientists can use satellites to see impacts of that trend: a significant increase in the release of the lung-irritating air pollutant nitrogen dioxide, for example,…

Chemists and hardware stores across Australia are selling out of masks as the bushfire crisis continues. Thick smoke has blanketed major cities for weeks, with air quality reaching over 20 times the hazardous level in some places.  Sporting events and mu…

The world is gonna get a lot warmer. The unusually warm winter weekend that just ended for those of us in the Northeast is a reminder of what thatll look like. Sure, it was kinda nice to spend some time outside in a t-shirt in January. But a new study…

A satellite image showing fires burning on Australia’s east coast. Credit: NASA EARTH OBSERVATORY Smoke from this season's bushfires has turned the sun red, the moon orange and the sky an insipid grey. It has obscured iconic views tourists flock to see. Far more than an aesthetic problem, it has…

(Reuters) - Smoke from Australia’s bushfires has blanketed its major cities over the past month, turned the sky over New Zealand bright orange and left sooty deposits on its glaciers and drifted across the Pacific to South America. Reuters used readings fro…

This article originally appeared on VICE Australia. There are parts of Australia where its currently a health risk to step outside and breathe. One is the nations capital, which last week boasted the most heavily polluted air in the world. At 1 a.m. on New Y…

In 2017, I was working for Google in the Bay Area of California, lamenting the ever-rising cost of housing, when a co-worker mentioned he was moving to Pittsburgh. I talked it over with my partner, and we did some basic research. We checked property values, n…