ESCAP | Air pollution across the Asia–Pacific remains a severe, transboundary public health crisis driven by climate change and natural hazards, underscoring the urgent need for regional cooperation, adaptation strategies, and satellite-based monitoring to protect health and guide policy.

Machinery Market | AvantiGas improved worker safety and ensured consistent compliance with breathing-air standards at its LPG vessel refurbishment site by installing an Atlas Copco BAP+ purifier, delivering stable, certified air quality for operators in shot-blasting environments.

Aspen Daily News | Pitkin County has launched a yearlong air quality and emissions monitoring project around Aspen’s airport to measure health-relevant pollutants, assess aviation-related impacts, and guide strategies for reducing airport emissions, amid community calls to also track ultrafine particles.

Essex News Daily | The East Orange School District received a $1.7 million New Jersey grant to purchase five electric school buses and charging infrastructure, aiming to reduce diesel emissions, improve air quality, and provide healthier transportation for students in an overburdened community.

xinhuanet.com | Sarajevo imposed emergency traffic restrictions and public activity bans after heavy smog pushed PM2.5 and PM10 levels to unhealthy extremes, with stagnant weather conditions expected to prolong poor air quality.

UC Santa Cruz – News | UC Santa Cruz’s CITRIS selected five student-led projects for its 2025–26 Tech for Social Good Program, funding cross-disciplinary, technology-driven efforts to address major societal challenges.

EPA | The EPA is supporting small, noncompliant drinking water systems in California’s San Joaquin Valley by funding technical assistance, training, and community partnerships to help bring dozens of systems into safe drinking water compliance.

NewsOne | The EPA announced it will stop considering the monetized health benefits of reduced illness and premature death when developing air pollution regulations, a shift critics say undermines the agency’s public health mission.

The Arizona Republic | The Trump administration is moving to repeal the 2009 greenhouse gas endangerment finding, a foundational ruling that enables federal regulation of air pollution from vehicles and power plants linked to major health and climate impacts.

Research journals – PLOS | The study found high levels of enzyme-producing microfungi in museum display and storage areas, indicating a significant risk of fungal biodeterioration to ethnographic textile artifacts and underscoring the need for continuous microbial monitoring and improved environmental control.

ESCAP | Air pollution across the Asia–Pacific remains a severe, transboundary public health crisis driven by climate change and natural hazards, underscoring the urgent need for regional cooperation, adaptation strategies, and satellite-based monitoring to protect health and guide policy.

Machinery Market | AvantiGas improved worker safety and ensured consistent compliance with breathing-air standards at its LPG vessel refurbishment site by installing an Atlas Copco BAP+ purifier, delivering stable, certified air quality for operators in shot-blasting environments.

Aspen Daily News | Pitkin County has launched a yearlong air quality and emissions monitoring project around Aspen’s airport to measure health-relevant pollutants, assess aviation-related impacts, and guide strategies for reducing airport emissions, amid community calls to also track ultrafine particles.

Essex News Daily | The East Orange School District received a $1.7 million New Jersey grant to purchase five electric school buses and charging infrastructure, aiming to reduce diesel emissions, improve air quality, and provide healthier transportation for students in an overburdened community.

xinhuanet.com | Sarajevo imposed emergency traffic restrictions and public activity bans after heavy smog pushed PM2.5 and PM10 levels to unhealthy extremes, with stagnant weather conditions expected to prolong poor air quality.

UC Santa Cruz – News | UC Santa Cruz’s CITRIS selected five student-led projects for its 2025–26 Tech for Social Good Program, funding cross-disciplinary, technology-driven efforts to address major societal challenges.

EPA | The EPA is supporting small, noncompliant drinking water systems in California’s San Joaquin Valley by funding technical assistance, training, and community partnerships to help bring dozens of systems into safe drinking water compliance.

NewsOne | The EPA announced it will stop considering the monetized health benefits of reduced illness and premature death when developing air pollution regulations, a shift critics say undermines the agency’s public health mission.

The Arizona Republic | The Trump administration is moving to repeal the 2009 greenhouse gas endangerment finding, a foundational ruling that enables federal regulation of air pollution from vehicles and power plants linked to major health and climate impacts.

Research journals – PLOS | The study found high levels of enzyme-producing microfungi in museum display and storage areas, indicating a significant risk of fungal biodeterioration to ethnographic textile artifacts and underscoring the need for continuous microbial monitoring and improved environmental control.