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Tag Archives: San Francisco
Doctors alarmed by surge in hospital visits as toxic smoke engulfs west coast
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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Tagged Air Pollution, California, Health Effects of Air Pollution, Oregon, San Francisco, smoke, USA, wildfires
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California wildfire smoke drifts to East Coast, Europe
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
Posted in Air Quality, Europe, USA, USA & Canada, World News
Tagged Air Pollution, California, Oregon, San Francisco, smoke, USA, wildfires
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Living with air pollution
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
Wildfires are creating a public health crisis of smoke problems.
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
Posted in Air Quality, USA & Canada
Tagged Air Pollution, California, PM2.5, San Francisco, smoke, USA, wildfires
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Stagnant Summer Days on the Rise in U.S.
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
Posted in Air Quality, USA & Canada
Tagged Air Pollution, Asthma, New Orleans, Ozone O3, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, USA
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Worst air pollution in the world: Beijing, Delhi, Ahwaz, and Ulaanbaatar
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
Posted in Africa, Air Quality, Asia, China, India, Iran, Middle East, USA & Canada, World News
Tagged Ahvaz, Air Pollution, Bakersfield, Beijing, Botswana, California, Central Valley, China, Delhi, Health Effects of Air Pollution, Iran, Mongolia, New Delhi, Nitrogen Oxide NO, Ozone O3, Pakistan, PM10, San Francisco, Ulaanbaatar, USA, World Heath Organization (WHO)
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NASA Measures Air Pollution Above Bay Area to Determine Effect on Humans
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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Tagged Air Pollution, Bay Area, NASA, San Francisco, USA
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Air pollution study clears the air on diesel versus gas emissions
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
