Air Pollution

The wife of Anambra state governor, Nonye Soludo, has urged Nigerians to embrace cycling and walking to reduce air pollution caused by vehicles, and promote a healthy lifestyle. She made the call during a media chat on Tuesday, July 25 in Awka to promote her project – Healthy Living with…

American Heart Association Research Highlights: An analysis of more than 202,000 heart attack deaths between 2015-2020 in a single Chinese province found that days that had extreme heat, extreme cold or high levels of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) air pollution were significantly associated with the risk of death from a…

New tools can guide US policies to better target and reduce racial and socioeconomic disparities in air pollution exposure...Read More

Canadian wildfire smoke continues to blow over much of the U.S., raising air pollution to harmful levels for construction workers. Now, the impact of the fires is likely to raise U.S. lumber prices, too. Canada’s 2023 wildfire season has been blazing, burning the largest amount of land ever recorded in…

More than a quarter of the passenger vehicles sold in China in 2022 were new energy vehicles (NEVs), including full EVs and hybrids. Records show that nearly 7 million NEVs hit China’s streets last year — that’s 26% of the nearly 27 million vehicles sold overall, up from less than 5%…

This story was supported by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. As wildfire smoke from Canada plagued parts of the United States for the second time this summer, expanding into parts of the Midwest and East Coast, cities were caught unprepared. While a few put out alerts, outreach was limited.  People…

A study by the Keck School of Medicine has found that even EPA-approved levels of certain pollutants can lead to changes in brain function over time in children. The research, utilizing brain scans from over 9,000 youths, discovered that exposure to these pollutants results in altered connectivity between various brain…

A wildfire burns in a forest near the town of Cochrane, Ont., in a June 6, 2023, handout photo. (The Canadian Press/HO-Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry) Wildfire smoke continues to blanket northern and eastern parts of Ontario today, with Environment Canada warning the very high levels of air pollution…

This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here with permission. As an orange plume of smoke from Canadian wildfires engulfed the Northeast this month and rendered New York City’s air the most toxic in the world for a day, air quality and its impact on human health became…

Published Jun 24, 2023  •  Last updated 4 days ago  •  3 minute read Paddlers were wearing masks on the Rideau River at Mooney's Bay, as Ottawa was dealing with bad air quality with smoke in the air Sunday, June 25, 2023. The festival was cut short Sunday due to heavy…