Feb. 14, 2025 — In a study measuring neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) admissions and satellite-based air pollution data, newborns exposed to higher levels of NO2 have a 30-35% higher risk of ...

Feb. 13, 2025 — Nanoplastics -- plastic particles smaller than 1 m -- are widely dispersed because of their low weight. A research team now shows the extent to which glaciers at an altitude of ...

Dust from your car brakes are polluting the air and is worse than exhaust fumes while electric vehicles are not as green as you think; all you need to know.

Unfortunately, too often our air is anything but fresh. While air quality varies dramatically from place to place and day to day, nearly the entire world — about 99% of the global population ...

Diagram showing PM2.5 deflection over the top of trees In general, with greater distances from the pollution source, i.e. vehicle emissions along expressways and road dust, there is a greater ...

He is in charge of developing and carrying out testing procedures for a wide variety of home appliances and smart devices including robot vacuums, smoke/CO detectors and air conditioning units.

Boston College’s Global Observatory on Planetary Health is first to reveal town-by-town pollution levels and health impacts, including 2,780 deaths in 2019 Air pollution remains a silent killer in ...

If you think of air pollution, it's likely a vision of smog over a busy city will spring to mind. But what many people don't realise is just how bad indoor air pollution can also be. A new study ...

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If you see a storm moving towards Florida, you can suggest that dust may be a contributing factor to the air quality. Other dust storms may have a local source. Often dust storms come from a small ...