Fox 11 | Wisconsin’s DNR has launched an upgraded, user-friendly real-time air quality map, with prominent advisories, a news box, streamlined navigation, and an “Orange or Above” AQI filter, to help residents stay safer during ozone and wildfire smoke events.

News-Medical.net | A University of Chicago review underscores that particulate air pollution is a major, modifiable driver of respiratory disease causing asthma, COPD, infections, fibrosis, and lung cancer through oxidative stress, inflammation, and mitochondrial injury, highlighting the urgent need for stronger air quality standards and interventions.

SnowBrains | The lightning-sparked Garnet Fire has scorched nearly 55,000 acres in California’s Sierra National Forest, pushing air quality in Mammoth Lakes and Yosemite into hazardous levels as thousands of firefighters battle the fast-growing blaze threatening ancient sequoias.

The BMJ | With record heat intensifying worldwide, doctors warn that combined exposure to extreme temperatures and air pollution is a growing health emergency, stressing the need for integrated medical guidance, protective infrastructure, and stronger political action to cut fossil fuel emissions.

POLITICO Pro | The EPA is moving to weaken regional haze rules designed to curb industrial emissions and restore visibility in national parks, drawing legal challenges from environmental groups as officials frame the program as a burden on energy costs.

University of California, Merced | UC Merced’s Professor Xuan Zhang has received a $621,000 NSF CAREER Award to study how changing pollution levels alter the chemistry of peroxy radicals, with implications for air quality, climate models, and community education.

Central Oregon Fire Info | Despite recent rain, Central Oregon remains at high wildfire risk after 76 fire incidents this month, prompting officials to maintain Stage 1 restrictions and urge the public to follow fire safety rules and report smoke immediately.

ScienceDirect.com | A new study using survey data in Beijing shows that outdoor air pollution exposure varies sharply by daily activities—highest during work and commuting—and is shaped by health, education, and social status, highlighting the need for policies addressing both activity patterns and inequality.

European Public Health Alliance | The EU Healthy Air Coalition warns that air pollution drives chronic disease and billions in economic costs, urging policymakers to accelerate emissions cuts, set binding methane targets, end fossil fuel subsidies, and curb biomass burning.

UNEP | Guatemala, with UNEP’s support, is developing its first air quality regulation to set standards, build a monitoring network, and strengthen emissions controls, marking a major step toward cleaner air ahead of the International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies 2025.

Fox 11 | Wisconsin’s DNR has launched an upgraded, user-friendly real-time air quality map, with prominent advisories, a news box, streamlined navigation, and an “Orange or Above” AQI filter, to help residents stay safer during ozone and wildfire smoke events.

News-Medical.net | A University of Chicago review underscores that particulate air pollution is a major, modifiable driver of respiratory disease causing asthma, COPD, infections, fibrosis, and lung cancer through oxidative stress, inflammation, and mitochondrial injury, highlighting the urgent need for stronger air quality standards and interventions.

SnowBrains | The lightning-sparked Garnet Fire has scorched nearly 55,000 acres in California’s Sierra National Forest, pushing air quality in Mammoth Lakes and Yosemite into hazardous levels as thousands of firefighters battle the fast-growing blaze threatening ancient sequoias.

The BMJ | With record heat intensifying worldwide, doctors warn that combined exposure to extreme temperatures and air pollution is a growing health emergency, stressing the need for integrated medical guidance, protective infrastructure, and stronger political action to cut fossil fuel emissions.

POLITICO Pro | The EPA is moving to weaken regional haze rules designed to curb industrial emissions and restore visibility in national parks, drawing legal challenges from environmental groups as officials frame the program as a burden on energy costs.

University of California, Merced | UC Merced’s Professor Xuan Zhang has received a $621,000 NSF CAREER Award to study how changing pollution levels alter the chemistry of peroxy radicals, with implications for air quality, climate models, and community education.

Central Oregon Fire Info | Despite recent rain, Central Oregon remains at high wildfire risk after 76 fire incidents this month, prompting officials to maintain Stage 1 restrictions and urge the public to follow fire safety rules and report smoke immediately.

ScienceDirect.com | A new study using survey data in Beijing shows that outdoor air pollution exposure varies sharply by daily activities—highest during work and commuting—and is shaped by health, education, and social status, highlighting the need for policies addressing both activity patterns and inequality.

European Public Health Alliance | The EU Healthy Air Coalition warns that air pollution drives chronic disease and billions in economic costs, urging policymakers to accelerate emissions cuts, set binding methane targets, end fossil fuel subsidies, and curb biomass burning.

UNEP | Guatemala, with UNEP’s support, is developing its first air quality regulation to set standards, build a monitoring network, and strengthen emissions controls, marking a major step toward cleaner air ahead of the International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies 2025.