HEPA Air Purifiers Can Help Lower Blood Pressure, Study Finds

by Air Quality News | Aug 7, 2025 | Headlines

NBC News | 7 August 2025 | A new study found that using HEPA air purifiers in homes near busy roads reduced systolic blood pressure by nearly 3 points in adults with slightly elevated levels, suggesting a simple way to lower cardiovascular risk from traffic-related...

Air Quality Alerts In Place Across 10 States As Extreme Heat Warnings Issued In Southwest

by Air Quality News | Aug 7, 2025 | Headlines

ABC News – The Walt Disney Company | 7 August 2025 | Smoke from over 700 Canadian wildfires is triggering air quality alerts across 10 U.S. states, with officials warning of prolonged haze and health risks for sensitive groups in the Northeast.

State Environmental Agency Upgrades North Charleston Air Quality Monitoring System

by Air Quality News | Aug 6, 2025 | Headlines

WCSC | 6 August 2025 | South Carolina upgraded its North Charleston air quality station with new remote-access calibration tools, enhancing monitoring of sulfur and nitrogen dioxide to ensure compliance with EPA clean air standards.

Positive Matrix Factorization Outperforms Machine Learning In Imputing Missing PM2.5 And Further Identifying Spatial Patterns In Multi-Sites Without External Data

by Air Quality News | Aug 6, 2025 | Headlines

ScienceDirect.com | 6 August 2025 | A study comparing five methods for imputing missing PM2.5 data in Seoul found that Positive Matrix Factorization (PMF) outperformed machine learning and statistical approaches while also revealing spatial pollution patterns across...

Govt Mandates Real-Time Air Monitoring In Industrial Zones

by Air Quality News | Aug 5, 2025 | Headlines

ANTARA News | 5 August 2025 | Indonesia’s Environment Ministry now requires all industrial zones to install real-time air and emissions monitoring systems in response to worsening air quality in the Greater Jakarta area, including Tangerang.

Millions Are Under Air Quality Alerts As Wildfire Smoke Blankets Large Swaths Of U.S.

by Air Quality News | Aug 5, 2025 | Headlines

NBC News | 5 August 2025 | Smoke from nearly 200 out-of-control Canadian wildfires is blanketing much of the Upper Midwest and Northeast, prompting widespread air quality alerts across 14 U.S. states as fine particulate pollution reaches unhealthy levels and threatens...