How NASA Is Advancing Post-Wildfire Air Quality Forecasting

by Air Quality News | May 20, 2025 | Headlines

Envirotech Online | 20 May 2025 | The University of Texas at Arlington is leading a NASA-backed initiative to develop a real-time early warning system for wildfire-related air quality threats, enhancing forecasting and public health responses through satellite data...

Increases In Global Transportation-Induced Air Pollution Mortality And Radiative Forcing During 1990–2019

by Air Quality News | May 20, 2025 | Headlines

Frontiers | 20 May 2025 | From 1990 to 2019, transportation emissions led to global increases in PM2.5 and ozone concentrations by 18% and 19%, respectively, with the sharpest rises occurring in China and South Asia. This resulted in a 105% surge in...

Air Pollution Fuels Artery Damage And Accelerates Heart Disease, Review Finds

by Air Quality News | May 20, 2025 | Headlines

News-Medical.net | 20 May 2025 | A new review in Atherosclerosis highlights how exposure to air pollution—especially fine particulate matter (PM2.5)—contributes to the onset and progression of atherosclerosis through mechanisms like oxidative stress, systemic...

Sustainable Modular Biofiltration System With Rainshower Technology For AQI Reform

by Air Quality News | May 19, 2025 | Headlines

Nature | 19 May 2025 | India ranks as the tenth most polluted country globally, with air pollution contributing to 1.67 million deaths and a 1.36% GDP loss. A recent study evaluating the UBREATHE RAIN air purification system near a stubble-burning site showed it...

Restaurants Trial Air Purifiers To Cut Pollution

by Air Quality News | May 19, 2025 | Headlines

BBC | 19 May 2025 | Westminster City Council is trialing air purifiers in central London restaurants to reduce PM2.5 emissions from cooking, the borough’s third-largest source of air pollution. The free, three-month pilot aims to collect data on cooking-related...

Air Pollution Linked To Risk Spontaneous Preterm Birth Risk

by Air Quality News | May 19, 2025 | Headlines

Contemporary OB/GYN | 19 May 2025 | A new study presented at the 2025 ACOG Annual Meeting found that maternal exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and specific constituents like black carbon and sulfate significantly increases the risk of spontaneous preterm...