The Local Haze blog welcomes Radu Radu Motișan, who founded uRADMonitor in 2012 as a DIY Geiger counter in Romania, and it has grown into one of the world’s most significant crowdfunded sensor arrays....

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Air monitors are currently online at 56 Oakland Unified School District campuses, with plans underway to expand to 75.

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Airborne genetic material can be used to paint a picture of ecosystem health, watch for invasive species and even identify humans.

The Local Haze blog welcomes members of the Living Observatory team: Glorianna Davenport, President of Living Observatory and Brian Mayton, Chief Technology Guru. Since its founding in Boston, Massach...

ROSHARON, Texas — A controversial proposed concrete-crushing facility in Fort Bend County has been abandoned by the company behind it,…

EPA is working on repealing major air‑pollution rules for fossil‑fuel power plants, including weakening protections against mercury and other toxic emissions.

With air pollution damaging to cyclists, Willy Phillips has developed a project to help improve health outcomes and reduce emissions through active travel.

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The Local Haze team recently interviewed Dr. Nicholas Newman, a Physician-Researcher in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA whose work is focused on providing care to children exposed to environmental toxicants and...

India News: NEW DELHI: Countries like UK, Canada and Singapore on Monday issue travel advisory cautioning its citizens against the deteriorating air quality index.

Parts of the three states face unhealthy levels of air pollution early Friday, according to AirNow.

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Residents in parts of Texas and Indiana face pollution in the "unhealthy" Air Quality Index category on Saturday morning.

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In two recent studies, University of Texas at Dallas researchers demonstrated how artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning can be used to address a variety of issues from a social science policy perspective. Dr. Dohyeong Kim, a researcher in the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences (EPPS), and collaborators in South Korea have developed […]

A modelling study based on satellite observations, machine learning and a chemical transport model quantifies the global and regional exposure to particulate-matter pollution and the human h...

Climate change is making forest fires worse, and vice-versa — creating a vicious "climate-fire feedback loop" that has helped fuel record burns in recent years.

We are taking a worldwide tour highlighting 80 AQI sensors around the globe, checking out how citizen scientists and air quality enthusiasts are monitoring their local air quality.  On stop #7 we are ...

We’re excited to share that Local Haze now supports AirGradient sensors. In this first post of a two-part series, we spotlight the innovative AirGradient team, exploring the inspiration behind their t...

Wildfire smoke is no longer an occasional disruption. It’s becoming the default.

Thank you to the AARP/Senior Planet team for hosting us early in 2025 for an invited talk titled “Air Quality Monitoring by Citizen Scientists“. In this presentation, we discussed our work to help dem...