Air Quality News
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.
Neighbors Rally Behind Independent Pollution Monitoring In Advance Of Tuesday Night’s DEQ Hearing
WVTF | 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 | 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.
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.
School-Based Air Quality Monitoring Program
Pima County | 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 | 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.
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...
NASA’s TEMPO Satellite Enables Better Monitoring Of Bad Air Days
Knowable Magazine | 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 | 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.
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.
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.
Neighbors Rally Behind Independent Pollution Monitoring In Advance Of Tuesday Night’s DEQ Hearing
WVTF | 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 | 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.
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.
School-Based Air Quality Monitoring Program
Pima County | 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 | 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.
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...
NASA’s TEMPO Satellite Enables Better Monitoring Of Bad Air Days
Knowable Magazine | 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 | 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.
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.
Air Quality Headlines
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.
Modelling Air Pollution Impacts On Infectious Disease
Nature | 16 September 2026 | Air pollution increases the risk of invasive pneumococcal disease and bacterial lineage changes the timing of that risk, making pathogen genomic diversity an effect modifier.
Some People Rely On Air Quality Forecasts For Their Health, But It’s Hard To Measure
WHYY | 16 September 2026 | A Philadelphia woman’s life-threatening asthma crisis during the 2023 Canadian wildfire smoke event highlights the serious health risks that prolonged wildfire pollution can pose to people with respiratory conditions.
Edge AI Air Quality Monitor & Pollution Anomaly Detector
Hackster.io | 15 September 2026 | PuneAir is an offline Arduino-based air quality monitor that uses gas and optical dust sensors to classify local conditions as good, moderate, or hazardous and communicates the results through LED patterns and audible alerts.
America’s Air Monitors Are Disappearing. So Is Your Power To Expose Polluters.
Grist | 15 September 2026 | As the U.S. public air monitoring network faces declining funding and aging equipment, communities are increasingly turning to low-cost sensors to track pollution from sources including wildfires, industry, data centers, and ozone.
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