Why current efforts aren’t enough Most towns and cities around the world have just one – if any – air pollution monitor. Low- and middle-income countries, where pollution is often ...
Nearly 150 million Americans, or roughly half of the population, live in areas with unhealthy levels of air pollution. The problem disproportionately menaces communities of color and low wealth. That ...
Some of the most polluted parts of the world, with unhealthy or hazardous air quality, have little to no data on how bad the problem is impacting public health. Right ...
Up to 5 million people die each year from heart attacks, strokes, diabetes and respiratory diseases that result from exposure to air pollution. That’s more than the deaths from AIDS, ...
(Houston – September 28, 2020) To streamline how the Houston region responds to hazardous air pollution, the city of Houston, Harris County and Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), with support from ...
Precision data fosters meaningful change for clean air While ambient air pollution monitoring can give us a sense of a region’s overall air quality, new sensor technologies and data analyses ...
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