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Toxic chemicals in your car seats could be increasing risks of cancer, study warns
Have you been harbouring the misimpression that the worst thing that could happen to you while comm…
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Air pollution levels usually dip in the summer. Smoke from Western wildfires changed that, with pollutants now peaking in August.
Researchers found that raging wildfires in the Pacific Northwest are altering seasonal air pollutio…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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The air in New Delhi, the world's most polluted capital, got even worse after people ignored a ban to fill the air with Diwali fireworks
People celebrated on Thursday, using fireworks that produced smoke and worsened the already-dire po…
Sinéad Baker
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Authorities in India are planning a new lockdown not to combat COVID-19, but air pollution
Pollution levels in New Delhi, considered the world's most contaminated capital city, have gone off…
Bill Bostock
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People are flocking to Colorado for the great outdoors, but air pollution is leading to more days when residents are stuck inside
Traffic, oil and gas, and wildfires are taking a toll on the fresh mountain air of Colorado, where …
Kelsey Vlamis
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California warehouse fire leached chemicals into a nearby channel, releasing a 'rotten egg' smell that some residents say is making them sick
Carson, California, smelled like rotten eggs for two months due to elevated hydrogen sulfide levels…
Aria Bendix
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Video shows a truck 'rolling coal,' or purposefully blowing a cloud of thick black exhaust fumes, into a busy Texas restaurant
A person held the door of a Whataburger restaurant open as a truck rolled coal, modifying a diesel …
Katie Balevic
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California is banning gas-powered leaf blowers, lawn mowers, and weed trimmers - and offering rebates for switching to zero-emission tools
The state has set aside $30 million to help professional gardeners and landscapers switch to electr…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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This bio-engineered houseplant claims to clean the air as efficiently as 30 air purifiers
A Paris-based startup ‘Neoplants’ has genetically modified a plant to do the work of 30 air purifie…
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Despite global emissions falling 7% in 2020, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is at its highest level in modern history
The amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is 50% higher than in preindustrial times. Every year, the worl…
Matty Merritt, Morning Brew
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A 9-year-old girl's death certificate will be 'the first in the world' to list air pollution as a cause after a fatal asthma attack
Ella Kissi-Debrah died from an asthma attack in 2013. Experts ruled that unlawful air pollution lev…
Aylin Woodward
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Photos show Beijing glowing yellow in the worst sandstorm for a decade: 'It looks like the end of the world'
Photos from Beijing, China, show the sandstorm turning the city yellow and obscuring buildings as s…
Sinéad Baker
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Texas found startling amounts of a cancer-causing chemical in the air outside Houston. Nobody told the residents.
Texas regulators documented startling amounts of benzene in Channelview, near Houston. Instead of s…