Air Quality Articles
Gas Stoves and Indoor Air Quality: What Cooking With a Flame Adds
Gas stoves provide familiar and responsive cooking heat, but without effective ventilation, their flames can release nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, benzene and other pollutants into the air throughout a home.
How Geological Erosion Shapes the Air We Breathe
From quartz-rich deserts and volcanic ash fields to glacial valleys and drying lakebeds, the geology beneath a landscape and the climate surrounding it determine what kinds of mineral particles eventually enter the air.
Baker’s Lung: The Airborne Cost of Victorian London’s Daily Bread
Victorian bakers faced devastating respiratory illness as flour dust, poor ventilation, extreme heat, and exhausting hours turned London’s daily bread into a serious occupational hazard.
Rotifers on the Wind: How Microscopic Animals Travel Through the Air
Rotifers can survive drying, travel through the air on dust or as dormant eggs, and revive after landing in a suitable wet habitat.
Using Carbon Dioxide to Understand Room Ventilation
Carbon dioxide monitoring can help hotels understand how well occupied rooms are ventilated, allowing them to improve guest comfort, identify mechanical problems, and adjust airflow more efficiently.
How Air-Quality Sensors Detect Pollution
Air-quality sensors use light, chemical reactions, electrical resistance, or infrared absorption to detect particles and gases, giving people a clearer view of pollution that is often invisible.
How Large-Scale Farm Irrigation Influences Air Quality
Large-scale farm irrigation can reduce windblown dust and support vegetation, but inefficient water use, diesel-powered pumps, salt buildup, and shrinking desert lakes can create new air-quality challenges.
How Open-Pit Mining Affects Air Quality and How Its Impacts Are Managed
Open-pit mining can release dust and diesel pollution into nearby communities, but careful planning, emission controls, monitoring, and land reclamation can significantly reduce its impact on air quality.
How Concrete Production, Construction, and Recycling Affect Air Quality
Concrete production, construction, and recycling can all affect air quality through dust, diesel emissions, and industrial pollutants, making proper controls essential for protecting nearby workers and communities.
Air Quality Headlines
We Don’t Have A Clean Indoor Air Act. Are Air Purifiers The Answer?
CNET | 20 July 2026 | A firsthand look at California’s wildfire smoke highlights how air purifiers, proper ventilation, and source control can work together to improve indoor air quality and reduce exposure to harmful airborne pollutants.
Air Quality Improving In Northeast, While Wildfire Smoke Hangs Over Midwest
NPR | 20 July 2026 | Smoke from hundreds of Canadian wildfires continues to degrade air quality across the Midwest and eastern United States, with officials warning that unhealthy conditions will linger in some regions despite improving air elsewhere.
How Long Until The Smoke Clears? Updated Forecast Shows Timeline For Better Air Quality
The Hill | 19 July 2026 | Smoke from Canadian wildfires is causing hazardous air quality across a broad swath of the United States, with millions advised to stay indoors until changing weather helps clear the smoke over the weekend.
Air Quality Alert For Chicago, Day 2, As Wildfire Smoke From Canada Shuts Down Beaches, Venues
Chicago Sun-Times | 19 July 2026 | Wildfire smoke from Canada continued to blanket the Chicago area with unhealthy air on Friday, prompting closures, event disruptions, and health precautions even as conditions slowly began to improve.
U.S. Cities Have The Worst Air Quality In The World Right Now—Here’s How To Stay Safe
Scientific American | 18 July 2026 | Emerging research suggests wildfire smoke may be significantly more harmful than other forms of air pollution, increasing the risk of illness and death while underscoring the importance of limiting exposure during smoke events.
Governor Moore Announces Code Red Air Quality Condition In Maryland Resulting From Wildfire Smoke
The Office of Governor Wes Moore - Maryland.gov | 18 July 2026 | Maryland has declared a Code Red air quality alert as wildfire smoke from Canada pushes pollution to unhealthy levels statewide, prompting officials to urge residents to stay indoors, limit outdoor...
Wildfire Updates: Smoke Pushes Air Quality To Dangerous Levels For Millions
ny times | 17 July 2026 | Dense smoke from Canadian wildfires has blanketed the Northeast and Upper Midwest with hazardous air pollution, prompting officials to urge millions of residents to limit outdoor exposure as air quality deteriorates.
Air Quality Alert Extended For Chicago Area, ‘Red Forecast Air Pollution’ Declared
NBC 5 Chicago | 17 July 2026 | Chicago's air quality alert has been extended through Friday as wildfire smoke from Canada and northern Minnesota continues to create unhealthy to potentially hazardous conditions across the region.
Minnesota Air Quality Alert: Twin Cities Air Now Considered Hazardous
FOX 9 | 16 July 2026 | An expanding wildfire smoke plume has pushed much of Minnesota, including the Twin Cities, into hazardous air quality conditions, prompting officials to urge residents, especially vulnerable groups, to stay indoors.
Canadian Wildfire Map Shows Dangerous Air Quality Levels In US
USA Today | 16 July 2026 | Smoke from hundreds of active Canadian wildfires is degrading air quality across the Northeast and Midwest, prompting health alerts as officials warn that unhealthy conditions could persist for several days.
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