Science

How Working From Home Could Save 11 Billion Road Miles, Cut Emissions
Jun 16, 2020

Maintaining remote working after the coronavirus lockdown in the U.K. could cut two airports’ worth of emissions and eliminate 11.3 billion miles of commutes, a British clean air campaign has ...

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Opinion: Why Texas is stuck in a vicious cycle of climate change, hurricanes and recovery
Jun 04, 2020

It rained for four days when Hurricane Harvey made landfall three years ago. As the rain kept falling, nearly 340 tons of extra pollution were being spewed into the air ...

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West Oakland Environmental Justice Leaders on What’s Changed, What Hasn’t in the Neighborhood
Apr 28, 2020

In the early 1990s, West Oakland resident Ms. Margaret Gordon, as she likes to be called, worked at the neighborhood elementary school. When she was in the nurse’s office, something ...

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After years of progress, the number of Americans breathing polluted air is rising, report says
Apr 24, 2020

More Americans are breathing air that will make them sick, according to the American Lung Association’s annual State of the Air report. The country had been making progress in cleaning up air ...

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NYC municipal vehicles to test local air quality for pollution in South Bronx with mobile sensors
Jan 21, 2020

The city will start using municipal vehicles to test local air quality in the South Bronx as part of a pilot program that launched Tuesday. Five parks and sanitation vehicles ...

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Worried about the air quality, Pleasantville residents established one of a kind in Texas community-run monitoring network
Jan 07, 2020

The warehouse fire of 1995. That’s the first thing many in Pleasantville point to when asked about air quality in the historic neighborhood east of downtown Houston. It was June ...

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Californians Turn to Low-Cost Sensors for Highly Local Air Quality Data
Nov 05, 2019

Last November, while the Camp Fire ripped through the town of Paradise, in Butte County, Bay Area residents 150 miles away choked on a thick layer of smoke carried southwest ...

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Study: Street-level air pollution increases health risk among elderly
May 15, 2018

A new study published today in the journal Environmental Health shows that differences in traffic-related air pollution are associated with higher rates of heart attacks and deaths from heart disease in the elderly. Scientists ...

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Study: Urban Air Pollution Varies from Block to Block
Jun 05, 2017

(June 5, 2017) An article published today in the journal Environmental Science and Technology demonstrates how a new approach to measuring air quality reveals pollution patterns at far greater detail than ever before. This ...

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