A study led by researchers from the University of Virginia has used satellite measurements to show the long-term persistence of air pollution inequalities tied to industrialized swine facilities in Eastern North Carolina.
Experts are starting to warn against air pollution, urging global leaders to act quickly before health concerns take more lives
The Kimballton Plant, which processes limestone, was fined by the Department of Environmental Quality for failure to monitor its smokestack emissions, which include sulfur dioxide.
Mumbai: To address the worsening Air Quality Index (AQI) in Mumbai during the winter season, the BMC took several measures including the implementation of its dust mitigation plan. Although the overall AQI of Mumbai has improved to ‘Moderate’ level,
Thai authorities have made travel by public transport in Bangkok free for a week, the latest tactic to try to tackle soaring levels of air pollution that have already seen hundreds of schools closed and employees working from home.
Due to air pollution in Colombo and its suburbs, there is an increase in health issues such as respiratory difficulties, coughing, childhood asthma and viral respiratory infections, Lady Ridgeway Hospital (LRH) Consultant Pediatrician Dr.
Exposure to traffic-related air pollution (TRAP) is associated with depression in women, possibly via reproductive
Shemsi Gara operated a giant digger in a Kosovo coal mine, churning up toxic dust that covered his face and got into his airways. Home life wasn't much better: the power plants that the mine supplies constantly spew fumes over his village.
According to a study conducted back in November by the University of Birmingham and recently published in " Indoor Air " recently found that, "Air fryers produce a tiny fraction of the indoor air pollution emitted by other cooking methods including pan and deep frying."
The data hasn’t improved since then, although, fortunately, AI tools have vastly improved and offer new possibilities.
India’s capital of over 33 million people has long suffered from toxic air, but this has never really registered as a key political issue. That’s changing this election season, as Stuti Mishra reports
“You have to be pretty dang healthy to be able to run (across) a marathon finish line,” Braun said. “If air pollution is having an effect on (marathon runners), it shows that really, there's no limit to who is susceptible to the effects of air pollution.”