- The Bay Area Air Quality Management District has issued an air quality advisory for Thursday and Friday because of wildfire smoke that is expected to be visible in parts of the region. The smoke is coming from the McFarland, Monument and River Complex fires further north in California ...
There is still a lot of smoky air in the Bay Area because of the wildfires burning up north near the Oregon border. The Bay Area Air Quality Management District hasextended a Spare the Air alert through Friday due to wildfire smoke that continues to lingerin the region from fires burning f...
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District has extended an air quality advisory through Friday because of smoke persisting in the region from wildfires further north in California. The smoke has caused worse air quality than last week, when the air district also issued advisories, but it is no...
All of this is to say that we should do what we can to make sure we cut down on the haze and smoke we breath in while we wait this all out. Of course, air conditioning aside, we should also limit our time outdoors, keep our windows and doors closed and avoid strenuous activity. T...
With all of these wildfires, the US has been affected by all of the smoke being produced. As you probably know, New York experienced some really bad air quality and orange skies last week. We had some hazy skies a week or two ago but those hazy skies are back for the time being. ...
Pollution from wildfires constitutes a growing source of poor air quality globally. To protect health, governments largely rely on citizens to limit their own wildfire smoke exposures, but the effectiveness of this strategy is hard to observe. Using data from private pollution sensors, cell phones,...
quality in San Francisco and parts of the East Bay reached “unhealthy” levels Friday, and it’s stilltoo soon to tellwhether this weekend will provide a respite from wildfire smoke. Some COVID-19 testing sites were forced to shut down in San Francisco later Friday due to air quality....
Smoke from wildfires is a growing public health risk due to the enormous amount of smoke-related pollution that is produced and can travel thousands of kilometers from its source. While many studies have documented the physical health harms of wildfire s
Fire ozone accounted for up to 8.3% of TTOC at downwind sites such as Yarmouth, Sable Island, Narragansett, and Walsingham. The results are consistent with other studies that have reported an increase in ozone production with the age of the smoke plume....
Thus, it has been suggested that wildfire smoke events may exacerbate the COVID-19 pandemic. Objectives Our goal was to examine whether wildfire smoke from the 2020 wildfires in the western United States was associated with an increased rate of SARS-CoV-2 infections in Reno, Nevada. Methods ...