IQAir News

Sort By

New calculator provides first-ever real-time global demographic data on air pollution exposure

Read about our international effort to measure air pollution exposure in real time for the entire world population. Read More >

Smog getting you down? New study shows PM2.5’s impact on human stress levels

Feeling stressed? A new study shows that PM2.5 impacts your stress levels. Learn more. Read More >

Liuzhou Forest City offers a peek into the future of green spaces

Liuzhou Forest City, China’s latest self-sufficient town, will be entirely covered in trees and plants and powered by renewable energies. Learn more. Read More >

Revealing the Invisible: Leslie in Singapore

While Singapore benefits from its close proximity to larger countries, it can also be subject to influence from their emissions. Learn what citizens in Singapore are doing about its air quality problems. Read More >

Revealing the Invisible: Raul in Mexico

We start in Mexico, where clean air enthusiast Raul has implemented a network of six Node air monitoring stations spanning Monterrey to Mexico City in an effort to increase local air quality awareness. Read More >

Revealing the invisible: community air activists are transforming the global data map. Hear their stories

In less than a year, the AirVisual Node has been deployed as a public outdoor air monitoring station in more than 20 countries, for some of which Nodes are the only data source. Citizens have chosen to take their local air quality into their own hand Read More >

How to protect yourself from Legionnaires’ disease

Legionnaires’ disease is a severe form of pneumonia caused by the Legionella bacterium. Outbreaks rarely – if ever – make national news. But that does not make it any less deadly. Read More >

Economic cost of air pollution in Canada reaches huge $40 billion in one year

While Canada’s air quality is ranked as one of the cleanest in the world, the welfare cost of its air pollution is still significant. Read More >

“Toxic Tour” highlights air pollution’s human toll

The Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice (CCAEJ) is a nonprofit organization that has worked on social and environmental issues in the inland valleys of Southern California for more than 35 years. Read More >

Air pollution may play a role in depression

Air pollution also appears to play a role in depression, though scientists are still trying to clarify the link.  Read More >

London to impose new daily charges on polluting vehicles to fight air pollution

In 2019, London mayor Sadiq Khan imposed a fee on drivers of “most polluting cars” in order to drive in the city. Learn more. Read More >

Barcelona implements Europe’s largest car ban to-date in a leap to reach WHO standard air quality

The proposed car ban will affect residents in Barcelona and 39 surrounding municipalities, removing more than 100,000 cars from the roads. Read More >

Search

search-normal