Air Pollution

At a table in the Berghoff German restaurant in downtown Chicago in 2012, Charlie Catlett feverishly drew software architecture on a napkin. A senior computer scientist at Argonne National Laboratory at the time, Catlett had been working with scientists from the US Environmental Protection Agency to understand the effects of…

Heat waves and air pollution are harmful, even deadly, and both are predicted to increase in frequency due to climate change. A team of researchers at the University of Southern California is helping shed light on those health risks by assessing six years of air quality, temperature and death certificate…

A consortium of bus operators, power companies and green groups on Tuesday urged the government to expedite the replacement of diesel buses with ones that run on clean energy. The Zero Emissions Mobility Consortium said concrete action is urgently needed to tackle a dangerous level of roadside air pollution in…

Recent research reveals that environmental variables like air pollution, along with high blood pressure, diabetes, and smoking, are highly predictive of people’s odds of dying. Environmental variables influence mortality riskA new study reveals that environmental variables like air pollution, together with high blood pressure, diabetes, and smoking, are highly predictive…

On Wednesday morning, the punishing heatwave that has roiled western Europe over the last week abated, heading east toward central Europe. The heat broke records across the United Kingdom and France and leaves a path of destruction in its wake: Train tracks and roads in London buckled, homes burned down…

This is the second in a two-part series about oil and gas emissions in the San Joaquin Valley originally published by Capital and Main. Read the first story here. Just outside the small oil town of McKittrick, five large steam generators resembling a row of chimneys and operated by Sentinel…

Air pollution can not only have harmful effects on a mom, but it could cause issues for their unborn child and holds a key to problems with the child's development, according to evidence found by researchers at the University of Washington. What to know: Air pollution should be considered a…

CLIMATEWIRE | Summer across the American West has become synonymous with extreme heat and poor air quality — and that combination can be particularly deadly, according to a recent study. Researchers at the University of Southern California analyzed more than 1.5 million deaths in California between 2014 and 2019, and…

Herschel Walker, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Georgia, walks off-stage during pre-race ceremonies at a NASCAR event in Hampton, Georgia, on Sunday. (Photo: James Gilbert via Getty Images) Herschel Walker, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Georgia, walks off-stage during pre-race ceremonies at a NASCAR event in Hampton, Georgia,…

Today is Clean Air Day – the UK’s largest air quality campaign embracing business, schools and the wider community which aims to highlight the dangers of air pollution. One place where residents say those dangers have become all too real, is near a landfill site in Staffordshire. Locals say the…