A surprising number of new consumer tech products promise to improve air quality.
- Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry at the National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of York
La mala calidad del aire es perjudicial para la salud, pero debemos tener cuidado con las correlaciones simplistas entre la contaminación y la incidencia de COVID-19.
Yes, poor air quality is bad for your health – but beware simplistic correlations with COVID-19.
Menyaring udara menghabiskan banyak daya dan menumpuk zat kimia berbahaya di pembuangan akhir.
El filtrado del aire consume mucha energía y produce filtros usados repletos de productos químicos nocivos que acaban en los vertederos.
Filtering air uses lots of energy and concentrates harmful chemicals in landfills.
The US government is set to make it easier for oil and gas firms to leak methane into the atmosphere.
Two air pollution experts analyse the government’s plan.
China has built a skyscraper-sized purification tower. But it will only clean perhaps 0.01% of the air in the ‘atmospheric box’ sat over a city.
Total emissions are coming down. But many people still live in cities with poor air quality.
We’ve seen smog before, but never on this scale.
It might seem strange to some that dust from the Sahara is falling on their cars in England. Stranger still, that Saharan sand is mixing with general air pollution from both continental Europe and the…
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