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Doctors alarmed by surge in hospital visits as toxic smoke engulfs west coast

Posted on September 21, 2020 by Respro® UK Ltd

Northern California health system reports surge in cases as region endures weeks of dangerous air A month after hundreds of wildfires started spewing toxic smoke along the west coast, doctors are seeing the alarming health effects of air pollution. In … Continue reading →

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California wildfire smoke drifts to East Coast, Europe

Posted on September 16, 2020 by Respro® UK Ltd

Smoke from the wildfires ravaging California has drifted across the U.S., reaching parts of the East Coast and Europe, officials said. “Satellite images this morning show smoke aloft moving over much of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic,” the National Weather Service’s … Continue reading →

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Living with air pollution

Posted on November 22, 2018 by Respro® UK Ltd

People wearing smoke masks, children going stir-crazy indoors, families driving hours to find fresh air. Alarming as it is to some, unhealthy air enveloping the San Francisco Bay Area in recent days is all too familiar to millions of people … Continue reading →

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Wildfires are creating a public health crisis of smoke problems.

Posted on October 17, 2017 by Respro® UK Ltd

In the new “Smoke Belt,” it’s raining ash and respiratory illnesses. No one knows what sparked the violent fires ablaze in the hills of California wine country. Over the past week, the flames have torched more than 160,000 acres across Napa and … Continue reading →

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Stagnant Summer Days on the Rise in U.S.

Posted on July 29, 2015 by Respro® UK Ltd

Those long, hot, sultry days of summer, the ones where the air seems so still it wouldn’t disturb a leaf, are also days where air quality can take a nosedive. With winds barely above a whisper and atmosphere-scouring rains nowhere … Continue reading →

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Worst air pollution in the world: Beijing, Delhi, Ahwaz, and Ulaanbaatar

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Respro® UK Ltd

I wake up and suck a bowl of charred asbestos through a dirty bong. Well, that’s what it feels like most winter mornings when I open the door of the fourth-floor New Delhi apartment that I currently call home. Fog-drenched … Continue reading →

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NASA Measures Air Pollution Above Bay Area to Determine Effect on Humans

Posted on February 5, 2013 by Respro® UK Ltd

NASA plans to measure hydrocarbons and nitrous oxide by flying as low as 1,000 feet and as high as 26,000 feet NASA will measure air pollution levels at different heights above the Bay Area in an effort to detect whether … Continue reading →

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Air pollution study clears the air on diesel versus gas emissions

Posted on October 23, 2012 by Respro® UK Ltd

Are gasoline-fueled cars or large diesel trucks the bigger source of secondary organic aerosol (SOA), a major component of smog? UC Berkeley researchers have stepped into this debate with a new study that says diesel exhaust contributes 15 times more … Continue reading →

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