Paris: The world is still not using one of its most effective weapons against Covid — properly ventilating public spaces — more than two years into the pandemic, experts warn. At the moment there is a “fragile, armed peace” with Covid-19, said Antoine Flahault, director of the Institute of Global Health at the University of … Read more
Dhaka’s air quality remains in the “moderate” zone. With an air quality index (AQI) score of 92 at 8:57 am today (July 2, 2022), the capital of Bangladesh ranked 15th in the list of world cities with the worst air quality. For all latest news, follow The Daily Star’s Google News channel. Indonesia’s Jakarta, Iran’s … Read more
Mumbai: As rain activity has picked up pace, Mumbaikars on Friday breathed the cleanest air recorded so far. With a score of 10, the city has recorded the best air quality index (AQI) level since the System of Air Quality Weather Forecasting and Research (SAFAR) began monitoring in June 2015. AQI is measured by the … Read more
Persistent drought continues to take its toll on Californians. The largest private landowner in the state closed its forests to the public, primarily due to wildfire threat. One of the largest lumber manufacturers in the U.S., Sierra Pacific Industries, owns 1.8 million acres across 17 counties in the Golden State. “It’s these extreme drought conditions … Read more
The Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department issued a health advisory for sensitive populations due to anticipated high levels of smoke from fireworks. The LLCHD Air Quality Program typically observes periodic high levels of particulate air pollution from the evening of July 3 through the morning of July 5. During those times, Lincoln’s Air Quality Index often … Read more
The July Fourth weekend will get off to a steamy start in New York before intense storms descend throughout the tri-state region on Saturday, forecasters said. It’ll be humid and warm early Saturday — a “typical sultry summer day” with a high of 89 degrees in New York City — before conditions deteriorate significantly as … Read more
An air quality specialist has told a meeting that we need to change the narrative when it comes to how we discuss methane emissions in agriculture. Addressing the Agricultural Guild of Journalists of Ireland Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Co. Tipperary, Dr. Frank Mitloehner claimed that there is a “very negative bias” in reporting on … Read more
Invercargill has exceeded the national environmental standards for air quality for the first time, two months into Environment Southland’s winter air quality monitoring period. On Monday the Pomona St monitoring site recorded a 24-hour average PM10 concentration of 53mcg per cu m (micrograms per cubic metre of air), just over the standards’ threshold of 50mcg … Read more
Climate change activists claim they randomly started deflating tires on 40 SUVs parked on the Upper East Side this week — leaving behind fliers that warned: “Your gas guzzler kills.” The Tyre Extinguishers, a group that originally started in the UK, boasted of targeting dozens of vehicles Tuesday night in what the activists described as … Read more
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) – Friday has been declared an Air Quality Action Day due to higher ozone concentrations. According to the Omaha-Council Bluffs Metropolitan Area Planning Agency (MAPA), higher concentrations of ground-level ozone, as well as commercial firework use over the weekend, may lower air quality in the area. MAPA says the air quality forecast … Read more