"The decision-making process needs to be looked at carefully." Nationwide study uncovers major gaps in data about growing ...

Gas and propane stoves dangerously raise nitrogen dioxide levels within homes, posing health risks to tens of thousands of people across the US, a study has shown. Published in the journal Science ...

Instead, the U.S. air quality index looks at five pollutants regulated under the Clean Air Act: ground-level ozone, particulate matter, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen dioxide, the EPA ...

Switching to stricter California-style limits on truck emissions would prevent 500 deaths per year in the greater Chicago ...

A University of Utah study finds that air pollutant monitors are more common in white neighborhoods and less so in Native ...

The EPA's network consistently failed to capture air quality in communities of color across six major pollutants. The monitors are the key data source driving decisions about pollution reduction, ...

Two main air pollutants that affect lichen growth are nitrogen and sulphur dioxide. We breathe in harmless nitrogen gas all the time - in fact it makes up a large part of Earth's atmosphere. But when ...

First, nitrogen additions can increase photosynthetic uptake of carbon dioxide, and thus carbon storage in the ecosystem, by stimulating leaf production or by increasing the levels of leaf ...