NEW YORK -- New York City and the surrounding area expect to see the first heat wave of the summer this week. Several alerts and advisories have been issued, including an air quality alert for Tuesday. Weather alerts & advisories CBS New York Red Alert from Wednesday through Friday due...
People are rushing to buy air filters, humidifiers and high-quality masks on Amazon amid Canadian wildfires that have smothered large swaths of the United States in a thick plume of toxic smoke, leading to orange skies, a burnt taste in the air and advisories to stay inside. Fine particles...
However, the nature of traditional indices only allows for a single pollutant to drive daily index values (typically the highest individual daily pollutant’s index value), potentially underestimating the total health impacts and ignoring the impacts of multi-pollutant interactions. Research in NYC has...