So, just how can poor air quality affect your health? Well, according to the National Weather Service, if it's bad enough, it "can be hazardous." Here's what to look out for. Air quality has plummeted across much of the northeast as smoke from wildfires in Canada moves south. Poor...
Wednesday may be Global Running Day – but for those in the northeast U.S. and Canada, it may be one of the worst days of the year to lace up their sneakers and head outdoors. The air quality — deteriorated bywildfire smokefor much of the region — has become"unhealthy"according to ...
Canada has the ability to invest significantly in the monitoring and modelling of air quality. In translating this knowledge to the medical community and the general public, health risks related to air pollution could be mitigated and better health could be promoted. However, monitoring efforts ...
The Air Quality Health Index (AQHI) was developed by Health Canada and Environment Canada (EC), in collaboration with the provinces and key health and environment stakeholders, to provide information to Canadian on how air quality can impact their health on a daily basis. Four years ago, the ...
Poor air quality affects us all, it is a cost for our health, our environment and the economy and we must all do our part to tackle it. One of the main contributing factors to poor air quality in cities is petrol and diesel vehicle emissions and levels can become particularly harmful at...
What are the health effects of Indonesia’s polluted air? The cost to human health from the effects of heavily polluted air is shocking. After the notably bad burning season in 2015, it was reported that over 75,000 cases of patients suffering from upper respiratory infections needed medical ...
Health benefitsAir qualityVegetation including canopy, grasslands, and shrublands can directly sequester pollutants onto the plant surface, resulting in an improvement in air quality. Until now, several studies have estimated the pollution removal capacity of canopy cover at the level of a county, ...
and the materials used in construction can produce a variety of different fine particulate matter with many that have toxic effects on our health, as well as industrial runoff that can find its way into the ecosystem via waterways or numerous other means. This includes microplastics, and a myria...
Air pollution poses a persuasive threat to global health, demonstrating widespread detrimental effects on populations worldwide. Exposure to pollutants, notably particulate matter with a diameter of 2.5 µm (PM2.5), has been unequivocally linked to a s
“Most healthy adults and children will recover quickly from smoke exposure and will not have long-lasting health effects,” according to the EPA advisory. But that is less true for a large category of people, including children whose lungs are still developing, older adults, and people with ...