Air Pollution

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Children and young people have been deeply impacted by the current bushfire crisis. Schools have been destroyed and thousands of houses have burnt down. Hazardous air pollution is causing major public health concerns and the devastating impacts on animals and wildlife is leading to emotional distress.…

I want to know what I am breathing and I don't leave home without it. We talk a lot about air quality on TreeHugger, and lately we have been preoccupied with particulate matter, the tiny bits called PM2.5 that get into your lungs and throughout your body. (s…

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…