Air Quality Articles
How Catalysts Help Create Airborne Pollutants
Catalysts, reactive surfaces, metals, sunlight-driven chemistry, and airborne particles can accelerate reactions that transform existing gases into entirely new indoor and outdoor air pollutants.
Understanding Air Quality in Salons and Beauty Shops
Nail salons, hair salons, and beauty shops can contain a complex mix of chemical vapors, aerosols, dust, fragrances, and disinfectants, making ventilation and source control especially important for workers with repeated daily exposure.
How Swimming Pools Affect Air Quality
Swimming pools can affect air quality through chloramines, humidity, chemical vapors, and aerosols, making proper water treatment, ventilation, and facility design essential for protecting swimmers and staff.
Eight Worlds, Eight Skies: The Atmospheres of the Planets in Our Solar System
From Mercury’s near-vacuum to Venus’s dense carbon dioxide atmosphere and the hydrogen-rich skies of the outer planets, each world shows how atmospheric chemistry helps define an entire planetary environment.
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.
Air Quality Headlines
Air Quality Alert Affecting Kittitas County Wednesday
Tri-City Herald | 2 September 2026 | Washington officials have issued an air quality alert for Kittitas County as wildfire smoke is expected to push PM2.5 concentrations to unhealthy levels, particularly overnight and during the early morning.
Bellevue Elementary School In Richmond Closes For A Week For Deep Cleaning Amid Air Quality Concerns
WTVR.com | 2 September 2026 | Richmond’s Bellevue Elementary School will close for a week for comprehensive cleaning and remediation as officials investigate possible moisture-related indoor air quality problems and await environmental testing results.
Smoke And Haze Prompt Air Quality Advisory For Bay Area
KALW | 1 September 2026 | Smoke from the Timber and Plaskett wildfires near Big Sur has prompted a Bay Area air quality advisory, with officials warning that shifting conditions could bring unhealthy pollution levels through Tuesday.
Toxic Haze From Indonesian Forest Fires Chokes Malaysian Borneo
Al Jazeera | 1 September 2026 | Smoke from Indonesian forest and peatland fires has pushed air quality to hazardous levels across parts of Malaysian Borneo, increasing respiratory illnesses and disrupting outdoor activities and Independence Day celebrations.
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.
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