Smoke from California and Oregon wildfires has cloaked Canada's third-largest city of Vancouver—known for its majestic mountain views and fresh ocean breezes—in the dirtiest air in the world this week.
Environment
Sep 19, 2020
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Climate change is already affecting our health, even if we don't think about it much, says a University of Alberta public health expert.
Environment
Jan 23, 2020
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You can live without food for three weeks and without water for up to three days. But you can't live without air for more than three short minutes. It's not just the abundance of air that matters – the quality is essential, ...
Plasma Physics
Apr 29, 2019
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Researchers at Université Laval's Faculty of Science and Engineering and its Center for Optics, Photonics, and Lasers have created a smart T-shirt that monitors the wearer's respiratory rate in real time. This innovation, ...
Engineering
May 18, 2017
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Many shore residents and beach-goers are already familiar with the health risks of "red tide," algal blooms along coastlines that can trigger respiratory illness and other effects in people who inhale the toxins the algae ...
Environment
Jan 13, 2016
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Desperate civilians at the epicentre of Indonesia's haze crisis are taking the fight into their own hands, using whatever meagre resources they have to confront the fires ravaging their communities as they tire of waiting ...
Environment
Oct 28, 2015
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Forrest Bird, an American aviator who helped save countless lives by inventing the first modern ventilator, has died at the age of 94.
Other
Aug 4, 2015
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In Indonesia, land-clearing blazes dot the countryside. Fires for clearing land have been outlowed for all but the smallest landowners, but the "slash-and-burn" practice still persists despite cloaking Southeast Asia in toxic ...
Environment
Jul 22, 2013
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(AP)—Houston residents now can have in their pocket the answer to whether ozone levels in the city are too high for their asthmatic child to play soccer.
Environment
Apr 2, 2013
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A new device called a soft x-ray electrostatic precipitator protected immunocompromised mice from airborne pathogenic bacteria, viruses, ultrafine particles, and allergens, according to a paper published online ahead of print ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 31, 2013
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