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Air Pollution Primes Children for Asthma-Related Cockroach Allergy
February 6, 2013 — An allergic reaction to cockroaches is a major contributor to asthma in urban children, but new research suggests that the insects are just one part of a more complex story. Very early exposure to ... > full story -
Maternal Exposure to Outdoor Air Pollution Associated With Low Birth Weights Worldwide
February 6, 2013 — Mothers who are exposed to particulate air pollution of the type emitted by vehicles, urban heating and coal power plants are significantly more likely to bear children of low birth weight, according ... > full story -
Cassini Sees Saturn's Moon Titan Cooking Up Smog
February 4, 2013 — Newly published research using data from NASA's Cassini mission describes in more detail than ever before how aerosols in the highest part of the atmosphere are kick-started at Saturn's moon Titan. ... > full story -
Planting Trees May Not Reverse Climate Change, but It Will Help Locally
February 1, 2013 — Afforestation, planting trees in an area where there have previously been no trees, can reduce the effect of climate change by cooling temperate regions, a new study ... > full story -
New Device Traps Particulates, Kills Airborne Pathogens
January 31, 2013 — A new device called a soft X-ray electrostatic precipitator protected immunocompromised mice from airborne pathogenic bacteria, viruses, ultrafine particles, and allergens, according to a new ... > full storyMore: -
Indoor Air Puts Chinese Women Nonsmokers at Risk
January 29, 2013 — The hazards of breathing outdoor air in some Chinese cities have been well-documented. Now a study confirms that breathing indoor air also carries significant cancer risks, especially for Chinese ... > full story -
Measuring the Consequence of Forest Fires on Public Health
January 27, 2013 — Pollution from forest fires is impacting the health of people with asthma and other chronic obstructive lung diseases, finds a new study. This study uses data from pharmacies and dispensaries to ... > full story -
NASA Ozone Study May Benefit Air Standards, Climate
January 22, 2013 — A new NASA-led study finds that when it comes to combating global warming caused by emissions of ozone-forming chemicals, location ... > full story -
Air Pollution and Unhappiness Correlated, Study of Europeans Shows
January 18, 2013 — Researchers in Canada have found a correlation between air pollution and people's happiness. Their deep analysis suggests that air pollution may lead to unhappiness while the converse is also true, ... > full story -
Where There's Smoke or Smog, There's Climate Change
January 15, 2013 — In addition to causing smoggy skies and chronic coughs, soot -- or black carbon -- turns out to be the number two contributor to global warming. It's second only to carbon dioxide, according to a ... > full story
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