Intense Canadian wildfires are blanketing the northeastern U.S. in a dystopian haze, turning the air acrid, the sky yellowish gray and prompting warnings for vulnerable populations to stay inside.
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Jun 6, 2023
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Summer in India has always been hot. Increasingly, it's testing the limits of human survival. As temperatures have climbed across the world's most populous nation in recent weeks, more than a dozen people died at an event ...
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May 17, 2023
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The need for a smaller, more transportable version of ANSTO's 1,500-liter atmospheric radon-222 monitor, and with a calibration traceable to the International System of Units, prompted the team to develop a 200-liter radon ...
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May 5, 2023
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Coal trains and terminal operations add a significant amount of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) pollution to urban areas, more so than other freight or passenger trains, according to a study conducted in Richmond, California, ...
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Apr 27, 2023
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Air pollution still causes more than 1,200 premature deaths a year in under 18's across Europe and increases the risk of chronic disease later in life, the EU environmental agency said Monday.
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Apr 24, 2023
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With temperatures rising worldwide, more and more people globally consider air-conditioning an essential element of living with climate change. However, air-conditioning units are also rather power-hungry and are likely to ...
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Apr 21, 2023
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A new review of evidence highlights the impact air pollution has on health across the life course, from before birth through to old age.
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Apr 19, 2023
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A new study shows that large bodies of water in urban areas can be effective at removing pollutants and heat from cities, but smaller ones can actually make the problem of the "heat island effect" worse.
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Apr 18, 2023
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Fort Lauderdale's airport reopened Friday morning, two days after an unprecedented deluge left planes and travelers stranded, as residents in the city's hardest hit neighborhoods began the slow process of cleaning up the ...
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Apr 14, 2023
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A team of mechanical and civil engineers working with occupational health scientists affiliated with several entities in China and two colleagues from Harvard University found high levels of a host of chemicals inside of ...
