Air Pollution

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Dozens of activists held a rare protest on Thursday over air pollution in Bangkok, a day after Thai officials closed schools due to concern over the impact. A woman wears a mask during an environmental activists' rally to demand rights to clean air, near the Thai Government…

BEIJING (Reuters) - The public face of China’s effort to control a new strain of coronavirus, which has killed 17 and infected nearly 600, is an 83-year-old doctor who became a household name 17 years ago for “daring to speak” in the fight against SARS. Zho…

Image copyright NSW GOVERNMENT Image caption Fire authorities said there were no survivors in the crash An air tanker has crashed in a fireball while fighting bushfires in Australia, killing the three people on board.Officials lost contact with the C-130 Hercules plane shortly before 13:30 local time (02:30 GMT) on…

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…