Air Quality Articles
Protecting Food Before the Package Closes: How Processing Plants Control Air Quality
Food processing and packaging plants control filtration, humidity, pressure, airflow, and compressed air to prevent airborne contamination from shortening shelf life or spoiling finished products.
Where Air-Quality Information Comes From and How to Avoid Misinformation
Air quality has become remarkably easy to check. A smartphone weather app may display an Air Quality Index beside the temperature. News stations report wildfire smoke moving into a region. Government websites provide pollution forecasts, while inexpensive sensors...
Exhaust at the Track: Air Quality at Car and Motorcycle Racing Events
Car and motorcycle racing events can expose attendees and workers to exhaust gases, tire and brake particles, fuel vapors, and dust, making ventilation, monitoring, and cleaner event operations increasingly important.
Air Beneath the Earth: What Shapes the Atmosphere Inside Caves?
Cave air is shaped by geology, groundwater, microbes, animals, and limited ventilation, creating environments where gases such as carbon dioxide, radon, hydrogen sulfide, and methane can accumulate.
Keeping the Air Moving: Why Indoor Air Circulation Matters
Indoor air circulation helps distribute heating and cooling, move pollutants toward filters and exhaust systems, and prevent stagnant areas where heat, humidity, odors, and contaminants can accumulate.
What Is Swamp Gas?
Swamp gas forms when microorganisms break down organic matter in oxygen-poor wetlands, releasing methane, carbon dioxide, and sometimes hydrogen sulfide into the surrounding atmosphere.
No Open Windows in Orbit: How the International Space Station Maintains Air Quality
The International Space Station maintains breathable air by continuously removing carbon dioxide, controlling humidity, filtering particles and trace chemicals, generating oxygen, and monitoring its sealed cabin atmosphere.
Before the Smokestack: Air Pollution Before the Industrial Revolution
Long before factories and automobiles, people faced air pollution from dust storms, volcanic gases, wood and coal smoke, metalworking, and the waste and combustion of crowded preindustrial cities.
Where Ocean Meets Atmosphere: How Coastal Environments Shape Air Quality
Coastal air quality is shaped by sea salt, marine biology, changing winds, humidity, shipping emissions, and the constant exchange of particles and gases between ocean and atmosphere.
Air Quality Headlines
When Water Is Pulled From The Air In Homes, Pollutants Come With It
C&EN - American Chemical Society | 31 August 2026 | New research suggests that indoor air pollutants can contaminate water produced by atmospheric water harvesting devices, raising questions about water quality as the technology expands into homes and buildings.
Classes At ARMS, Chestnut Street Academy, And For All Kindergarteners Begin Monday, Aug. 31
Amherst Indy | 31 August 2026 | Amherst Regional Middle School will reopen after testing found indoor air quality remained in the “Good” range following concerns related to an ongoing roof replacement project.
John H. Kinzie Elementary School In Chicago To Reopen Monday After Repairs For Mold Concerns
CBS News | 30 August 2026 | A Chicago elementary school will reopen after mold remediation and air quality testing cleared the building for occupancy, with new real-time air quality monitoring and moisture-control measures being installed to help prevent future...
Lineage Food Removal Process At Boyle Heights Warehouse Is Completed
CBS News | 30 August 2026 | Cleanup of a fire-damaged cold storage warehouse has reached a major milestone with all decomposing food waste removed, while air pollution controls remain in place as crews complete final cleaning and disinfection.
Worst Day At Work Ever: Semi-Truck Rolls Into Pipeline, Area Ruled No-Fly Zone
The Drive | 29 August 2026 | A construction accident ruptured Wisconsin’s Enbridge Line 5 pipeline and released a large cloud of natural gas, prompting evacuations and emergency air monitoring that found no hazardous gas levels beyond the immediate area.
Flathead Air Quality Monitoring Site Closures Ordered By EPA, DEQ
Daily Interlake | 29 August 2026 | Flathead County will decommission PM10 monitoring stations in Whitefish and Kalispell as Montana shifts resources toward PM2.5 monitoring, despite concerns that relying on a single regional site could reduce local air quality coverage.
Water Testing Labs Keep Bacterial Basics On The Curriculum As PFAS Dominates Budgets
Envirotech Online | 28 August 2026 | Water-testing laboratories are increasingly prioritizing PFAS analysis and LC-MS/MS training as new regulatory requirements compete with traditional bacterial testing for laboratory budgets, equipment, and staff resources.
Tantramar Gas Plant Gets Green Light From N.B. Government
GazetteXtra | 28 August 2026 | A proposed 500-megawatt gas and diesel power plant in New Brunswick has received environmental approval with 45 conditions, including requirements for ongoing air and water quality monitoring and emergency planning.
NOAA Satellites Played Critical Role In Monitoring Historic Smoke Event
NESDIS - NOAA | 27 August 2026 | NOAA satellites tracked the rapid growth of wildfires in Ontario and Minnesota that sent dense smoke and harmful fine particulate pollution across major cities in the Midwestern and northeastern United States.
Open Air Quality Data: The Global Landscape
Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) | 27 August 2026 | A global assessment of government air quality monitoring finds that relatively few countries provide fully open pollution data, while many heavily populated and polluted nations still lack comprehensive...
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