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Your home's air quality may seem just fine, especially if you don't notice any less-than-fresh odors when you step inside.

Kenyan students turned farm waste into a low-cost exhaust filter, cutting pollution by 65% in a breakthrough for Nairobi’s air quality.

People breathing contaminated air over the course of years are at greater risk of developing numerous diseases. This is thought to be due to highly reactive components in particulate matter, which ...

Checking the fine particulate matter levels along with the weather every morning has become a daily routine. Research continues to show that fine particulate matter affects not only the respiratory ...

The health effects linked to particulate pollution exposure have been studied and documented for decades. These effects include respiratory and cardiovascular health problems and premature death. The ...

A burst of new data has ignited a better understanding of how fireworks impact the environment. Three recent studies comb ...

What is particulate matter? How do I interpret the AQI? There's a lot to learn since Canadian wildfires suddenly sent clouds of hazy smoke over the border and into parts of the Midwest, Northeast and ...

Greenhouse gases (GHGs) may be the newest pollutant regulated by EPA, but since there are no National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for GHGs, a facility is much more likely to be affected by ...