Air Pollution

French startup R-Pur has designed a reusable, hi-tech anti-pollution mask. It has a replaceable filter and is synched with an app that estimates when the filter should be replaced based on the air quality of the users location. R-Purs V2 mask was featured at…

French startup R-Pur has designed a reusable, hi-tech anti-pollution mask. It has a replaceable filter and is synched with an app that estimates when the filter should be replaced based on the air quality of the users location. R-Purs V2 mask was featured at…

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Climate change is set to make us sicker. There are wildfires and their air pollution; insects and the diseases they spread. Theres drought and the consequences of water shortages, as were seeing in Chennai, India. Heatwaves will likely kill thousands. The imp…

Share to facebookShare to twitterShare to linkedin Madrid Central Wikimedia Commons Six months ago, the Spanish capital set an example creating one of the most ambitious low-emission schemes among European capitals, call…

After decades of improvement, Americas air may not be getting any cleaner. Over the last two years the nation had more polluted air days than just a few years earlier, federal data shows. While it remains unclear whether this is the beginning of a trend, hea…

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Air pollution has a particularly damaging effect on children. They’re still growing and breathe faster than adults do. They also live closer to the ground, where the most polluting gases from vehicles accumulate. Pollution from traffic has been linked to prob…

Air pollution has a particularly damaging effect on children. They’re still growing and breathe faster than adults do. They also live closer to the ground, where the most polluting gases from vehicles accumulate. Pollution from traffic has been linked to prob…