A 54-day monitoring by Indonesia’s largest environmental group around a waste-to-energy plant in East Java revealed frequent air quality levels breaching World Health Organization safety limits, ...

Nashville is in for some hazy skies Friday and Saturday, as smoke from wildfires out West moves into Tennessee. Upper level westerly winds have brought the smoke into the Volunteer State, said the ...

A newly developed technology has now made it possible to measure fine particle levels in challenging conditions, breaking the reliance on international technologies for such measurements. This ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Small-particle pollution spiked in Mexico City to almost six times acceptable limits Sunday, a level not seen for years in the Mexican capital. Levels of small particles, known as ...

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A new study has found that high levels of air pollution can exacerbate the symptoms of a dangerous sleep condition linked to an increased risk of heart attacks. Obstructive sleep apneoa (OSA) causes ...

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Dust from the exposed lakebed of the Salton Sea, farm fields and the open desert all contribute to particulate pollution in the Coachella Valley. Photo by Zoë Meyers for CalMatters Outside her home in ...

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