Air Quality Articles
The Chemistry Beneath Our Feet: How Soil Bacteria Shape the Atmosphere
Soil bacteria shape atmospheric chemistry by decomposing organic matter, cycling nitrogen, releasing gases such as carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide, and even consuming trace gases like methane from the air.
How the Carboniferous Period Built an Energy Resource
Much of the coal that later powered industrial society began as vast Carboniferous wetlands, where plant material accumulated, was buried, and transformed by heat and pressure over hundreds of millions of years.
Can Concrete Grow Moss? How Respyre Is Turning City Walls Into Living Surfaces
Respyre’s Mosscrete turns concrete walls into living surfaces that may help capture airborne particles, retain rainwater, support biodiversity, and moderate urban heat while researchers continue measuring its real-world impact on city air quality.
COPD and the Air We Breathe: Understanding a Major American Lung Disease
COPD is a chronic lung disease shaped by smoking, occupational exposures, and air pollution, with treatment increasingly focused on controlling symptoms, preventing exacerbations, and targeting different forms of the disease.
Between Sea and Sky: How Seabirds Influence Atmospheric Chemistry and Air Quality
Seabirds spend much of their lives moving between two very different environments. They feed on fish, squid, krill, and other organisms at sea, then return to islands, cliffs, beaches, and coastal nesting colonies. In doing so, they transport nutrients that originated...
Hooves, Fire, and the Atmosphere: How Wildebeest and Other Grazers Influence Air Quality
Wildebeest and other grazers can influence air quality by reducing wildfire fuel, reshaping vegetation and carbon storage, redistributing nutrients, disturbing soil, and contributing natural methane emissions.
The Whale Pump: How Whales Help Move Carbon Through the Ocean
Whales contribute to ocean carbon cycling by recycling iron and other nutrients that support phytoplankton growth, helping move carbon from surface waters into deeper marine ecosystems.
Giants That Reshape the Air: How Elephants Influence Forests, Carbon, and the Atmosphere
Elephants influence the atmosphere indirectly by reshaping forests and savannas, altering carbon storage, seed dispersal, vegetation structure, nutrient cycling, and the fuels that determine how landscapes burn.
Beavers and the Atmosphere: How Dam Building Can Influence Air Quality and Carbon
Beavers influence air quality indirectly by creating wetlands that store carbon, retain moisture, alter methane emissions, and can reduce wildfire severity and the smoke produced by burning landscapes.
Air Quality Headlines
‘The Physical Toll Is Visceral’: How Indonesia’s Fire Haze Affects Millions – Visual Guide
The Guardian | 21 September 2026 | Fires across Borneo and Sumatra, intensified by hot and dry El Niño conditions, are producing widespread toxic haze that is degrading air quality for millions of people across Indonesia and neighboring countries.
Chileno Fire Burns 300+ Acres In Marin County As Air Quality And Health Advisories Issued
KRON4 | 21 September 2026 | Smoke from the 341-acre Chileno Fire in Marin County has prompted a Bay Area air quality advisory as officials warn that shifting conditions could spread smoke into neighboring counties.
Do Not Ingest Water Order Suspended For Holliday Outt Mobile Home Park
Oklahoma.gov | 20 September 2026 | Oklahoma environmental officials have lifted a do-not-ingest water order for Holliday Outt Mobile Home Park after concerns about possible contamination from wildfire and heat damage to drinking water equipment.
Trump Shut US Embassy Air Monitors, And Researchers Say Pollution Rose 24% To 33%
Yahoo | 20 September 2026 | A new study found that air pollution increased across dozens of cities after U.S. embassy air quality reporting was suspended in 2025, suggesting that publicly available monitoring data may help support pollution accountability.
Neighbors Rally Behind Independent Pollution Monitoring In Advance Of Tuesday Night’s DEQ Hearing
WVTF | 19 September 2026 | Shenandoah Valley residents are raising concerns over a proposed operating permit that would allow a Northrop Grumman manufacturing plant to emit hazardous air pollutants, with some calling for independent emissions monitoring.
Microsoft To Pay Record $2.5M Penalty For Violating Data Center Emissions Permit In Leesburg
Loudoun Times-Mirror | 19 September 2026 | Microsoft will pay nearly $2.5 million in penalties after emergency generators at a Virginia data center exceeded permitted fuel and emissions limits during a weeklong power disruption in 2025.
School-Based Air Quality Monitoring Program
Pima County | 18 September 2026 | Pima County and the University of Arizona are deploying low-cost air sensors at local schools to improve neighborhood-level pollution data, study environmental disparities, and engage students in community air quality science.
Air Pollution Spiked After The Trump Administration Stopped Embassy Monitoring
NPR | 18 September 2026 | Public air quality monitoring helped change perceptions of severe smog in China by giving residents clearer information about pollution levels and the potential health risks of the air they were breathing.
NASA’s TEMPO Satellite Enables Better Monitoring Of Bad Air Days
Knowable Magazine | 17 September 2026 | NASA’s TEMPO satellite is providing near-real-time, hourly observations of air pollution across North America, helping scientists track how wildfire smoke and other pollutants form, move, and change throughout the day.
Air Pollution Spiked After The Trump Administration Stopped Embassy Monitoring
WTJX Newsfeed | 17 September 2026 | A new study found air pollution increased across 46 cities after the U.S. suspended embassy air quality reporting in 2025, highlighting the role publicly available monitoring data can play in supporting pollution accountability.
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