Researchers from the University of Oulu, Finland, investigated how air pollution affects students' performance in matriculation exams, particularly in mathematical subjects.
People who live in São Paulo city in Brazil certainly recall an event that occurred on August 19, 2019, when dark clouds covered the sky and day turned into night.
More than 300 forest and peatland fires on Indonesia's Sumatra island caused hazy skies across the region on Monday, prompting government officials to ask people to work from home.
Wildfires emit large amounts of smoke containing harmful pollutants that can drift for hundreds or thousands of miles away from their source, as shown by this summer's Canadian wildfires, which created air quality problems as far afield as New York City.
This article originally appeared in Insider NJ.Canada is on fire. The smog fallout downwind has set off air quality alerts for 13 states south of the border with the worst air quality currently being reported in upstate New York from Syracuse to Binghamton.
A spate of blazes at refineries in East Texas has some residents concerned, following past explosions and toxic releases near Houston and Corpus Christi.
SAN DIEGO — Sewage pollution spilling over the border from Tijuana into the San Diego region not only threatens the health of surfers and swimmers but potentially those simply breathing the air. That's according to a study from UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography...
A judge reversed a 2022 decision by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality that involved its controversial “one-mile rule” to deny hearing requests.
The Lahore High Court (LHC) ordered officials on Tuesday to shut down all businesses by 10 p.m. every day in an attempt to combat the city's rising pollution levels, ARY News reported.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams sounded the alarm on Sunday after forecasts suggested that wildfire smog could reach the city by sunrise Monday, which could cause noticeably hazy skies.
From Quebec to British Columbia to Hawaii, North America is facing an extraordinary wildfire season — and regions both near and far have found themselves...
The railroad industry on Friday sued to block new environmental rules in California, arguing they would force the premature retirement of about 25,000 diesel-powered locomotives across the country.
A former tobacco lobbyist-turned-Fox News contributor bucked health experts by claiming on air that smoke billowing over the Northeast from Canadian wildfires will do people no harm.
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