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A new digital tool has been launched to help schools in the UK make informed decisions about classroom air quality. The CHEPA (Classroom HEPA) impact calculator is a free, web-based resource which helps users explore whether adding a...Friday, December 12, 2025 from AirQualityNews
A new study has found that chemical traces from Canada’s 2023 wildfires lingered in the air above Maryland – more than 1,000 miles from where the smoke originated – for months after the visible smoke had disappeared. The 2023...Friday, December 12, 2025 from AirQualityNews
A new study has uncovered significant evidence that airports are a previously underestimated source of airborne chemical contamination, offering the first detailed look into the hidden pollution linked to non-exhaust aviation emissions....Thursday, December 11, 2025 from AirQualityNews
Local authorities across the UK are being handed a new evidence-based resource to help curb rising air pollution and create healthier urban environments. The Urban Greening ‘How To’ Toolkit, developed through the UKRI-funded...Thursday, December 11, 2025 from AirQualityNews
Two Islington councillors have written to Lime and Forest – operators of bike hire schemes in the borough – asking them to take action on a range of issues that are identified in the letter. This comes just weeks after London...Wednesday, December 10, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Researchers have uncovered surprising evidence that the deep ocean’s carbon-fixing engine works very differently than long assumed. While ammonia-oxidizing archaea were thought to dominate carbon fixation in the sunless depths,...Wednesday, December 10, 2025 from AirQualityNews
Councils across England have been allocated more than £626 million to expand walking, wheeling and cycling routes as part of the Government’s mission to deliver safer streets, healthier communities and greener transport options. The...Wednesday, December 10, 2025 from AirQualityNews
University of Tartu Associate Professor in Climate Physics Velle Toll has been awarded a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant to determine just how much human-made air pollution particles help cool the Earth’s...Tuesday, December 9, 2025 from AirQualityNews
In its first six months, New York City’s controversial congestion pricing scheme has reduced air pollution by 22% in Manhattan’s toll zone, while improving air quality across the entire metropolitan region, according to new...Tuesday, December 9, 2025 from AirQualityNews
A £1 million investment is set to explore the vast geothermal energy potential beneath Aberdeen, marking a major step toward cleaner, low-carbon heating for the Granite City. The University of Aberdeen has secured the UK Research and...Thursday, December 4, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Pollution News
This year’s ozone hole over Antarctica ranked among the smallest since the early 1990s, reflecting steady progress from decades of global action under the Montreal Protocol. Declining chlorine levels and warmer stratospheric temperatures...Wednesday, December 3, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Researchers recreated conditions from billions of years ago and found that Earth’s young atmosphere could make key molecules linked to life. These sulfur-rich compounds, including certain amino acids, may have formed naturally in the...Friday, November 28, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Pollution News
Long-term inhalation of toxic air appears to dull the protective power of regular workouts, according to a massive global study spanning more than a decade and over a million adults. While exercise still helps people live longer, its...Wednesday, November 26, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Pollution News
Rerouted shipping during Red Sea conflicts accidentally created a massive real-world experiment, letting scientists study how new low-sulfur marine fuels affect cloud formation. The sudden surge of ships around the Cape of Good Hope...Monday, November 24, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Pollution News
Using a precisely aligned pair of laser beams, scientists can now hold a single aerosol particle in place and monitor how it charges up. The particle’s glow signals each step in its changing electrical state, revealing how electrons are...Saturday, November 22, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Scientists have uncovered a long-missing piece of the volcanic puzzle: rising magma doesn’t just form explosive gas bubbles when pressure drops—it can do so simply by being sheared and “kneaded” inside a volcano’s conduit. These shear...Thursday, November 20, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
A nationwide analysis has uncovered how sprawling fossil fuel infrastructure sits surprisingly close to millions of American homes. The research shows that 46.6 million people live within about a mile of wells, refineries, pipelines,...Thursday, November 20, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Experts say the ocean could help absorb carbon dioxide, but today’s technologies are too uncertain to be scaled up safely. New findings released during COP30 highlight the risks of rushing into marine carbon removal without proper...Wednesday, November 19, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Pollution News
Massive Sargassum blooms sweeping across the Caribbean and Atlantic are fueled by a powerful nutrient partnership: phosphorus pulled to the surface by equatorial upwelling and nitrogen supplied by cyanobacteria living directly on the...Thursday, November 13, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Pollution News
Arctic sea ice is disappearing fast, and scientists have turned to an unexpected cosmic clue—space dust—to uncover how ice has changed over tens of thousands of years. By tracking helium-3–bearing dust trapped (or blocked) by ancient...Sunday, November 9, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Researchers from the University of Vienna discovered MISO bacteria that use iron minerals to oxidize toxic sulfide, creating energy and producing sulfate. This biological process reshapes how scientists understand global sulfur and iron...Wednesday, November 5, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
A new copper-magnesium-iron catalyst transforms CO2 into CO at low temperatures with record-breaking efficiency and stability. The discovery paves the way for affordable, scalable production of carbon-neutral synthetic fuels.Thursday, October 30, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Pollution News
Researchers in Japan have revealed how some gourds draw pollutants into their fruits. The secret lies in a protein that carries contaminants through the plant sap. By manipulating this protein’s structure, scientists hope to breed crops...Monday, October 27, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
The Southern Ocean absorbs nearly half of all ocean-stored human CO2, but its future role is uncertain. Despite models predicting a decline, researchers found that freshening surface waters are currently keeping deep CO2 trapped below....Tuesday, October 21, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Scientists are taking the once-radical concept of dimming the sun through stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) seriously, but a Columbia University team warns that reality is far messier than models suggest. Their study reveals how...Tuesday, October 21, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Pollution News
Melting Arctic ice is revealing a hidden world of nitrogen-fixing bacteria beneath the surface. These microbes, not the usual cyanobacteria, enrich the ocean with nitrogen, fueling algae growth that supports the entire marine food chain....Sunday, October 19, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Mars’ north polar vortex locks its atmosphere in extreme cold and darkness, freezing out water vapor and triggering a dramatic rise in ozone. Scientists found that the lack of sunlight and moisture lets ozone build up unchecked. This...Tuesday, October 7, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Marine heatwaves can jam the ocean’s natural carbon conveyor belt, preventing carbon from reaching the deep sea. Researchers studying two major heatwaves in the Gulf of Alaska found that plankton shifts caused carbon to build up near the...Thursday, October 2, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Billions of years ago, Earth’s atmosphere was hostile, with barely any oxygen and toxic conditions for life. Researchers from the Earth-Life Science Institute studied Japan’s iron-rich hot springs, which mimic the ancient oceans, to...Friday, September 26, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Bio-tar, once seen as a toxic waste, can be transformed into bio-carbon with applications in clean energy and environmental protection. This innovation could reduce emissions, create profits, and solve a major bioenergy industry problem.Friday, September 19, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Wildfires are no longer a seasonal nuisance but a deadly, nationwide health crisis. Fueled by climate change, smoke is spreading farther and lingering longer, with new research warning of tens of thousands of additional deaths annually...Thursday, September 18, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Warming Arctic permafrost is unlocking toxic metals, turning Alaska’s once-clear rivers into orange, acid-laced streams. The shift, eerily similar to mine pollution but entirely natural, threatens fish, ecosystems, and communities that...Wednesday, September 17, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Heating alone won’t drive soil microbes to release more carbon dioxide — they need added carbon and nutrients to thrive. This finding challenges assumptions about how climate warming influences soil emissions.Monday, September 15, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
The booming space industry has filled the skies with rockets and satellites, but this rapid expansion comes with a hidden danger: slowing the recovery of the ozone layer. Rocket launches and burning space debris release chlorine, soot,...Wednesday, September 10, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Pollution News
Researchers in Germany and Australia have created a simple but powerful tool to detect nanoplastics—tiny, invisible particles that can slip through skin and even the blood-brain barrier. Using an "optical sieve" test strip viewed under a...Wednesday, September 10, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Barrels dumped off Southern California decades ago have been found leaking alkaline waste, not just DDT, leaving behind eerie white halos and transforming parts of the seafloor into toxic vents. The findings reveal a persistent and...Friday, September 5, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
A team of chemists has discovered how to transform PET plastic waste into BAETA, a material that captures CO2 with remarkable efficiency. Instead of ending up as microplastics in the environment, discarded bottles and textiles could...Wednesday, September 3, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Scientists at Northwestern University have developed a groundbreaking nickel-based catalyst that could transform the way the world recycles plastic. Instead of requiring tedious sorting, the catalyst selectively breaks down stubborn...Wednesday, September 3, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Snowfall shortages are now destabilizing some of the world’s last resilient glaciers, as shown by a new study in Tajikistan’s Pamir Mountains. Using a monitoring station on Kyzylsu Glacier, researchers discovered that stability ended...Thursday, August 28, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Researchers demonstrated how amino acids could spontaneously attach to RNA under early Earth-like conditions using thioesters, providing a long-sought clue to the origins of protein synthesis. This finding bridges the “RNA world” and...Friday, August 22, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
As the ozone layer recovers, it’s also intensifying global warming. Researchers predict that by 2050, ozone will rank just behind carbon dioxide as a driver of heating, offsetting many of the benefits from banning CFCs.Sunday, August 17, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Roughly two-thirds of all atmospheric methane, a potent greenhouse gas, comes from methanogens. Tracking down which methanogens in which environment produce methane with a specific isotope signature is difficult, however. UC Berkeley...Sunday, August 17, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Pollution News
Rising CO₂ levels will make the upper atmosphere colder and thinner, altering how geomagnetic storms impact satellites. Future storms could cause sharper density spikes despite lower overall density, increasing drag-related challenges.Sunday, July 27, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Pollution News
Air pollution isn't just bad for your lungs—it may be eroding your brain. In a sweeping review covering nearly 30 million people, researchers found that common pollutants like PM2.5, nitrogen dioxide, and soot are all linked to a...Thursday, July 24, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Pollution News
What would happen if a nuclear war triggered a climate-altering catastrophe? Researchers have modeled how such a scenario could devastate global corn crops cutting production by as much as 87% due to blocked sunlight and increased UV-B...Wednesday, July 23, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Imagine concrete that not only survives wildfires and extreme weather, but heals itself and absorbs carbon from the air. Scientists at USC have created an AI model called Allegro-FM that simulates billions of atoms at once, helping...Thursday, July 17, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Dogs trained by everyday pet owners are proving to be surprisingly powerful allies in the fight against the invasive spotted lanternfly. In a groundbreaking study, citizen scientists taught their dogs to sniff out the pests’ hard-to-spot...Wednesday, July 16, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Pollution News
An ancient glacier high in the French Alps has revealed the oldest known ice in Western Europe—dating back over 12,000 years to the last Ice Age. This frozen archive, meticulously analyzed by scientists, captures a complete chemical and...Saturday, July 12, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Even in a warming climate, brutal cold snaps still hammer parts of the U.S., and a new study uncovers why. High above the Arctic, two distinct polar vortex patterns — both distorted and displaced — play a major role in steering icy air...Thursday, July 3, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Breathing polluted air—even at levels considered “safe”—may quietly damage your heart. A new study using advanced MRI scans found that people exposed to more air pollution showed early signs of scarring in their heart muscle, which can...