air quality

February 16, 2024 BOSTON (Feb. 16, 2024) – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the availability of $81 million in funding for eligible air…

Artist's illustration of the Maxar-built Intelsat 40e satellite carrying the TEMPO instrument, NASA’s first air quality monitoring instrument in geostationary orbit. Credit: NASA/USGS/SAO.Former President Richard Nixon created the…

This visualization of TEMPO sensor first-light data shows high levels of nitrogen dioxide (indicated by darker colors) over multiple urban areas across the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Credit: NASA’s Scientific Visualization…

Planes drop water on a wildfire in British Columbia in July 2023REUTERS/Jesse Winter After months of devastating fires, Canada’s worst wildfire season worsened even further in September. In just seven days, blazes…

This image shows nitrogen dioxide concentrations across the United States, averaged over 2021. Darker colors indicate areas with higher concentrations, such as New York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles. The data were derived from the Aura…

This image shows nitrogen dioxide concentrations across the United States, averaged over 2021. Darker colors indicate areas with higher concentrations, such as New York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles. The data were derived from the Aura…

MIT Professor Siqi Zheng is the Samuel Tak Lee Associate Professor of Real Estate Development and Entrepreneurship within MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning and Center for Real Estate. She is also…

When wildfires burn near you, smoke can reach your community. Wildfire smoke is a mix of gases and fine particles from burning trees and plants, buildings, and other material. Wildfire smoke can make anyone sick, but people with asthma,…

Where there’s smoke, there is fire. But with climate change, larger and longer-burning wildfires are sending smoke farther from their source, often to places that are unaccustomed to the exposure. That’s been the…

Today’s the day to start thinking about air quality. What can you do? Pay attention to the Air Quality Index (AQI)external icon. The AQI is a tool that tells you when high levels of air pollution are predicted and tells you how air…

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Europe’s air quality status 2022 is one of a series to be published by the EEA as part of the Air quality in Europe 2022 report.This briefing assesses levels of air pollutants in ambient air across Europe and compares them against both…

  Despite a noticeable drop in air pollution from road transport in 2020 due to COVID-19 lockdown measures, breaches of European air quality standards remain a common occurrence across the European Union (EU), according to…

The Bernard M. Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program (GEL Program) recently revamped and relaunched 16.810 (Engineering Design and Rapid Prototyping), an existing Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics…

  30/01/2019 -  Australia has made some progress replacing coal with natural gas and renewables in electricity generation yet remains one of the most carbon-intensive OECD countries and one of the few where…

By Xinyi Zeng (xinyi.zeng@noaa.gov), Science Communications Specialist March 11, 2022 Updated seasonal changes in the UV Index for the Q&A supplement of the “Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion:…