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Air Quality

Tracking the impacts to air quality from wildfire smoke to air pollution, and what we can do about it.

Why Canada’s wildfires will affect air quality for weeks to come

By Li Zhou

The Air Quality Index and how to use it, explained

By Rebecca Leber

How America solved its first air pollution crisis — and why solving the next one will be harder

By Rachel DuRose

Wildfire smoke reminded people about climate change. How soon will they forget?

By Umair Irfan

If you can’t breathe well, neither can your pet

By Rachel DuRose and Oshan Jarow

The future of Canada’s wildfires, explained by a Canadian fire scientist

By Benji Jones

How to make your indoor air better when it’s smoky outside

By Keren Landman

Why is eastern Canada on fire — and when will the smoke clear?

By Benji Jones

The air we breathe was getting better. Then climate change hit.

By Rebecca Leber

Smoky air puts everyone at risk — but it’s worse for some

By Keren Landman

Dirty air can be deadly. Here’s how to protect yourself.

By Rebecca Leber

The EPA’s new plan to cut car pollution has an SUV problem

By Umair Irfan

It doesn’t take that many electric cars to improve public health

By Umair Irfan

The forgotten gas stove wars

By Rebecca Leber

Gas stoves and the problematic politics of sacrifice

By Kelsey Piper

The gas stove regulation uproar, explained

By Rebecca Leber

Our buildings are making us sick

By Keren Landman

The next frontier for climate action is the great indoors

By Rebecca Leber

It’s probably time to clean your filters

By Allie Volpe

What the Supreme Court’s EPA ruling means for air pollution — and your health

By Siobhan McDonough

The pollution from Russia’s war will poison Ukraine for decades

By Benji Jones

How to clear the air in the most polluted cities on Earth

By Siobhan McDonough

Your gas stove is always polluting, even when it’s turned off

By Rebecca Leber

How humans could live two years longer

By Dylan Matthews

Covid-19 proved bad indoor air quality makes us sick. We can fix that.

By Brian Resnick

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There’s a clear fix to helping Black communities fight pollution

Industrial pollution has sickened and poisoned Black communities for decades. Environmental justice experts have a solution to stop this.

By Rachel Ramirez

Scientists fear the Western wildfires could lead to long-term lung damage

By Umair Irfan

The orange skies and smoky air from Western wildfires, explained

By Umair Irfan

Air pollution is much worse than we thought

By David Roberts

Gas stoves can generate unsafe levels of indoor air pollution

By David Roberts

The deadly mix of Covid-19, air pollution, and inequality, explained

By Lois Parshley

Study: Small increases in air pollution make coronavirus much more deadly

By Matthew Yglesias

Installing air filters in classrooms has surprisingly large educational benefits

By Matthew Yglesias
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What makes Delhi’s air so deadly

By Christina Thornell and Mac Schneider

The law that’s helping fuel Delhi’s deadly air pollution

By Umair Irfan

Air pollution is much more harmful than you know

By Matthew Yglesias

Wildfires are making California’s deadly air pollution even worse

By Umair Irfan

Study: US air pollution deaths increased by 9,700 a year from 2016 to 2018

By Dylan Matthews

Breathing dirty air takes years off people’s lives. This tool shows just how much.

By Umair Irfan

We’ll soon know the exact air pollution from every power plant in the world. That’s huge.

By David Roberts

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