The 2025 Air Quality Awareness Week theme is “Stay Air Aware.” It is important to know the air quality around your home, school, or workplace, and the impact it can have your health and the environment. Knowing more about your air quality can help you …
World Asthma Day, a global healthcare event, is being observed today (Tuesday). The day is marked on the first Tuesday of May every year by various global and local organisations to raise awareness about asthma, a major non-communicable disease. The theme …
Every week, I meet young kids, middle-aged men or women and even the elderly struggling with unexplained fatigue, breathlessness, low immunity, frequent allergies, sinusitis, asthma, lung scarring, or anxiety—and more often than not, the root isn’t just …
In the years after World War II, the smog in Los Angeles was so thick that at times people could see no farther than three blocks. Despite efforts to limit emissions from power plants and oil refineries, the eye-burning, lung-choking blanket of smog …
The holds in climbing gyms collect rubber abrasion from shoe soles, which also gets into the air. Aaron Kintzi / CeMESS Why you can trust us Founded in 2005 as an Ohio-based environmental newspaper, EcoWatch is a digital platform dedicated to …
Sheer cliffs rise at Zion National Park, near Springdale, Utah., Sept. 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File) The Trump administration has temporarily suspended an air-quality monitoring program at national parks across the country, according to an …
Victor Waters Arizona has been facing an ongoing air quality crisis, and as a public health leader, I am calling on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to do better to protect our health and hold polluters accountable. The American Lung Association …
State officials have added two more South Dakota lakes to the fish consumption advisory list after testing found elevated mercury levels in large walleye. The state announced Monday that Dry Lake #1 in Clark County and Lake Henry in Kingsbury County have …
This week is Air Quality Awareness Week (May 5-9, 2025) — a great time to boost your knowledge about all things air quality! You may already know about the Air Quality Index (AQI) and what the distinct levels mean in terms of how clean or polluted your …
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