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Poor air quality indoors can make you sick. Here’s how to keep your home’s air clean
By: Ari Daniel | NPR
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WASHINGTON (NPR) — This summer, with wildfire smoke suffocating swaths of North America, we’ve been warned to stay indoors to avoid poor quality air. But there are things inside your… Read More
Air quality plummets as Canadian wildfire smoke stretches across the Midwest and beyond
By: Joe Hernandez | Rachel Treisman | Emily Olson | NPR
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WASHINGTON (NPR) — Smoke from wildfires in Canada is again blanketing parts of the U.S. with a thick haze that’s reducing visibility and prompting air quality warnings in several states…. Read More
Here’s how Canadian wildfires are worsening air quality across the U.S.
By: Joe Hernandez I NPR
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (NPR) — Dozens of wildfires are burning in the Canadian province of Québec, and the smoke is so bad that it’s causing air quality problems across large swaths… Read More
West Virginia officials investigate reports of powder in the air
By: Associated Press
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Reports of a powder in the air and on some vehicles in parts of the mid-Atlantic U.S. have prompted an investigation by state environment officials in… Read More
Mountain Air: Youth Help Identify Causes of Ohio Valley’s High Lung Disease Rates
By: Sydney Boles | Ohio Valley ReSource
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Isabella Back, 18, pulls her jacket tight around herself as she crosses the gravel driveway. “So we’re going about 10 feet from my house to my dad’s workshop,” she says,… Read More