Air Pollution

TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso, look at the top medical stories of the week. This week's topics…

Published Mar 29, 2023  •  Last updated Mar 29, 2023  •  3 minute read A jogger makes their way through the fog at the University of Alberta Farm in Edmonton, Tuesday Jan. 10, 2023. Environment Canada issued a special air quality statement for Edmonton and surrounding areas. Photo by David…

A new study led by North Carolina State University researchers found drought and heat waves could make air pollution worse for communities that already have a high pollution burden in California, and deepen pollution inequalities along racial and ethnic lines. Published in Nature Communications, the study also found financial penalties…

Hong Kong CNN  —  A severe sandstorm has swept across Beijing and several northern provinces in China, blanketing the region in thick clouds of orange dust and sending air pollution soaring to hazardous levels, state weather authorities said on Wednesday. Dense clouds enveloped the Chinese capital where the air quality…

Updated 1 month ago · Published on 22 Mar 2023 5:20PM · Air pollution soars in Beijing as the Chinese capital is hit by a huge sandstorm. – EPA pic, March 22, 2023. AIR pollution soared in Beijing today as the Chinese capital was hit by a huge sandstorm, and…

Smoke blankets Chiang Mai province in northern Thailand. (Photo: Pattarapong Chatpattarasill) The Thai Chamber of Commerce has proposed PM2.5 ultra-fine dust pollution be elevated to an urgent national agenda item, noting it affects the health of residents and dents confidence in tourism, particularly among long-term visitors and groups visiting the…

PARIS - We all know air pollution is bad, but it is even worse for fruit flies. Ozone-laden smog is playing havoc with their sex lives. Not only does it cause male flies to lose their sex appeal, it also leaves them unable to tell the difference between he-flies and she-flies, according to…

Nearly 900 Bangkok residents have sought medical care in the past six months due to worsening air pollution.  Since October, 883 people have visited City Hall-run clinics, aka “pollution clinics, mostly with respiratory problems, while some sought help for rashes, trouble breathing, irritated eyes, and asthma. As the smog reached…

Fine dust covers Bangkok on Monday. (Photo: Pornprom Satrabhaya) Both the Democrats and the Pheu Thai Party have promised to tackle the air pollution problem, including passing the long-overdue Clean Air Act. Democrat Party deputy leader Ongart Klampaiboon and head of the party's policy team Suchatvee Suwansawat announced their dust-tackling…

OZONE air pollution is linked to a higher rate of hospitalizations for heart diseases, according to a large study released on Friday, the latest warning of the health dangers posed by greenhouse gases. While a layer of ozone in the upper atmosphere helps block harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation from reaching…