Protecting Blue Whales And Blue Skies Becomes State Law In One Of The World’s Biggest Economies

by Ryan Wilmot | Oct 26, 2025 | Headlines

Santa Barbara County Air Pollution Control District | 26 October 2025 | California has expanded the Protecting Blue Whales and Blue Skies program statewide, reducing ship speeds to prevent whale strikes and cut emissions by 27%, equivalent to removing 900,000 cars...

Traffic-Related Air Pollution Exposure At Birth And Risk Of Childhood Leukemia: Results From The GEOCAP-Birth Case–Control Study

by Ryan Wilmot | Oct 26, 2025 | Headlines

ResearchGate | 26 October 2025 | A nationwide French study found that prenatal exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5), black carbon, and nitrogen dioxide increases the risk of childhood acute leukemia, particularly acute lymphoblastic leukemia, supporting a link...

Human Rights Watch Submission To The UN Special Rapporteur On The Human Right To A Clean, Healthy And Sustainable Environment

by Ryan Wilmot | Oct 25, 2025 | Headlines

Human Rights Watch | 25 October 2025 | Human Rights Watch reported to the UN that weak regulation and enforcement of air quality standards in countries such as the U.S., Türkiye, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the UAE allow fossil fuel operations to emit dangerous...

Tracking The Path To Cleaner Cities Using Global Urban NO₂ Monitoring From Space

by Ryan Wilmot | Oct 25, 2025 | Headlines

ESS Open Archive | 25 October 2025 | Satellite data from 2019–2024 show that 79% of 1,400 cities worldwide experienced significant declines in tropospheric NO₂, led by major reductions in China and Europe, while increases were observed in parts of the Middle East and...

Canadian Wildfires Impact Air Quality And Sunsets In Our Area

by Ryan Wilmot | Oct 24, 2025 | Headlines

WREX | 24 October 2025 | In recent years, wildfire smoke from Canada’s prairies has increasingly degraded surface air quality in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin, marking a shift from previously higher-altitude California smoke and underscoring changing...

Toxic Air Is Back Again In Delhi – Here’s Why It’s So Hard To Stop It

by Ryan Wilmot | Oct 24, 2025 | Headlines

BBC | 24 October 2025 | Delhi’s air quality plunged to its worst post-Diwali levels in four years as a mix of firecracker emissions, vehicle pollution, and renewed stubble burning across Punjab, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh combined with stagnant winter air to trap...