Published on: 2025-05-04 06:48:16
Updated at 11:37 a.m. on April 9, 2025 When you inhale a microscopic speck of soot, its journey may go like this: The particle enters your nose and heads into your lungs, penetrating even the tiny air sacs that facilitate gas exchange. Next it may slip into your bloodstream and flow into your heart, or past the blood-brain barrier. Most of us inhale some of these tiny particles every day. But inhaling enough can turn the act of breathing into an existential hazard, prompting or worsening asth
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When I experienced the Southern California wildfires in January, I quickly learned just how much poor air quality can affect our bodies. Even though I had an air purifier to help clean the air in my apartment, it still impacted both my physical and mental health. It turns out that it can also have an effect on how we exercise. "Indoor environments with poor air quality such as elevated CO₂ levels, particulate matter (PM2.5) and VOCs can reduce the oxygen available to muscles and the brain," Joa
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Air pollution kills millions every year — where does it come from? A breakdown of the sources of many air pollutants that damage our health and ecosystems. Millions of people die prematurely from air pollution every year. This problem has existed since humans started burning materials for fuel — first wood and biomass, then fossil fuels. But it’s an environmental and public health problem that we can make progress on. We know this because the world has already been successful in reducing air p
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An emergency situation that turned out to be mostly a false alarm led a lot of schools in Los Angeles to install air filters, and something strange happened: Test scores went up. By a lot. And the gains were sustained in the subsequent year rather than fading away. That’s what NYU’s Michael Gilraine finds in a new working paper titled “Air Filters, Pollution, and Student Achievement” that looks at the surprising consequences of the Aliso Canyon gas leak in 2015. The impact of the air filters i
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Back in January, I experienced the Southern California wildfires and quickly realized just how much poor air quality impacts everything we do. It was the closest I've been to a wildfire, and even though I had an air purifier to mitigate the effects, it still impacted both my physical and mental health. Turns out, it can also impact how we work out and recover. "Indoor environments with poor air quality such as elevated CO₂ levels, particulate matter (PM2.5) and VOCs can reduce the oxygen availa
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Around 10% of people in Europe suffer from depression after giving birth, experiencing symptoms that include sadness, agitation, and difficulty concentrating. For such a common condition — and one that has been linked to poorer outcomes for both the baby and the parent — postpartum depression has been relatively under-studied, write the authors of new work in Science of the Total Environment. In a bid to help address this, they ran a detailed study of one proposed risk factor — exposure to air p
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When I experienced the Southern California wildfires in January, my outdoor and indoor air quality was affected. This was the closest I'd ever been to a wildfire and I quickly realized just how much poor air quality can affect every aspect of our lives, including our mental and physical health. Since then, I've come across the Breathe Better challenge from smart indoor air quality tech company Airthings and running, cycling and hiking app Strava, which highlighted how indoor air quality can spe
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A researcher has identified a surprising source of plastic pollution: chewing gum. In an essay for The Conversation, microplastics expert David Jones of the UK's University of Portsmouth revealed that most modern chewing gum contains "a variety of oil-based synthetic rubbers," akin to the stuff that car tires are made of — which is not only going into our bodies, but also the environment upon being spat out. Mysteriously, Wrigley, the maker of "Double Mint" gum and the world's largest manufact
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You know microplastics, the little bits of plastic trash that've so deeply permeated the Earth that they've been found in clouds, rocks, caves that were sealed off from all humans, and even our brains, arteries, hearts, and sperm? Well, now scientists are warning that these dastardly particles could undermine the entire world's food supplies by undercutting plants' ability to photosynthesize. As detailed in a new meta-study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Scienc
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Big Tech’s growing use of data centers has created related public health costs valued at more than $5.4 billion over the past five years, in findings that highlight the growing impact of building artificial intelligence infrastructure. Air pollution derived from the huge amounts of energy needed to run data centers has been linked to treating cancers, asthma, and other related issues, according to research from UC Riverside and Caltech. The academics estimated that the cost of treating illness
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