Almost 40% of Americans live with dirty air: Report
Nearly 40% of Americans live where the air is polluted enough to harm them, a new report warns.
Apr 24, 2024
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Inorganic Chemicals: News and Research on Ozone
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Far-UVC light can virtually eliminate airborne virus in an occupied room, study shows
Far-UVC light is a promising new technology for reducing airborne virus levels in occupied indoor spaces, but its effectiveness has not been evaluated in real-life scenarios.
Apr 2, 2024
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New study quantifies health impacts from oil and gas flaring in US
A new study led by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Institute for the Environment, Boston University School of Public Health and the Environmental Defense Fund finds that pollution from oil and ...
Mar 12, 2024
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A quarter of Americans breathe 'unhealthy air,' report shows
Few can forget the haunting images of New York City bathed in a thick orange smog after smoke from Canadian wildfires swept southward last summer.
Feb 13, 2024
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Polluted air means more asthma attacks for urban kids, says new study
Air pollution may trigger more asthma attacks in urban children and teens, a new study reports. Even moderate levels of ozone and fine airborne particulates—two ingredients of smog—appear to increase kids' risk of asthma ...
Dec 22, 2023
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Air pollution from fossil fuel use accounts for over 5 million extra deaths a year, new modeling study finds
Air pollution from using fossil fuels in industry, power generation, and transportation accounts for 5.1 million extra deaths a year worldwide, finds a new modeling study published by The BMJ.
Nov 29, 2023
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Monitoring of natural gas compressor stations underestimates health risks to nearby communities, says study
There are more than 1,200 compressor stations along the roughly 3.2 billion kilometers (2 million miles) of natural gas pipeline in the United States. Monitoring and enforcement of pollutants from these stations is falling ...
Nov 3, 2023
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Air pollution linked to postpartum depression in large Southern California cohort
Research led by the University of California, Irvine, has found a significant association between long-term antepartum and postpartum air pollution exposure and higher risks of postpartum depression (PPD).
Germicidal UV lights could be producing indoor air pollutants, study finds
Many efforts to reduce transmission of diseases like COVID-19 and the flu have focused on measures such as masking and isolation, but another useful approach is reducing the load of airborne pathogens through filtration or ...
Oct 17, 2023
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High ozone exposure linked to increased mortality: New insights from a comprehensive Chinese national cohort study
In a new study published in Environmental Science and Ecotechnology, researchers from Wuhan University of Science and Technology revealed that even a modest increase of 10 μg m−3 in O3 concentration was associated with a ...
Jul 13, 2023
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