Air Pollution

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…

Can we get nuclear reactors that are walkaway safe with no physical possibility of meltdown? Can we have energy that is a hundred times safer than solar and a million times safer than coal? Can we solve CO2 emissions and air pollution? Can we get energy that is much cheaper…

India experienced not just more heat this summer, but more air pollution too. A new analysis reveals that India's national capital New Delhi saw a rise in air pollution during summers in 2022 compared to 2021 with the city's particulate matter levels significantly breaching the permissible limits, a new analysis…

A researcher says Africa’s huge renewable energy potential could save lives from air pollution. (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Africa’s huge renewable energy potential may contribute to better and cleaner energy for all by reducing air pollution, according to N’Datchoh Evelyne Taure, a researcher at the University Felix Houphouet-Boigny Abidjan,…

The Supreme Court decision to limit how the Environmental Protection Agency regulates carbon dioxide emissions from power plants could make an already grave situation worse for those affected most by climate change and air pollution, advocates say. Environmental and climate justice advocates from across the United States are decrying the…

Increasing agricultural productivity usually depends on adding something, such as fertilizer or water. Now, a Stanford University-led study reveals that removing one thing in particular -- a common air pollutant -- could lead to dramatic gains in crop yields.   The U.S. National Science Foundation-supported analysis, published in Science Advances, used…