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Long-term exposure to particulates from wildfire smoke linked to dementia risk, new study finds

Smoke permeates everything and impacts everyone. The visible stew of carbon and particulates typically from emission sources travels in the air, shrouds buildings, suffocates birds, and penetrates ...

Low-smoke solid fuels pose hidden public health risks via elevated ultrafine particle emissions

Air pollution causes millions of premature deaths worldwide each year, with fine particulate matter (PM2.5) identified as a ...
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Study: EVs Produce Dramatically Less Braking Particulates

Electric vehicles aren’t perfect, they don’t work for all drivers in every situation, but EVs still have some huge advantages over combustion-powered cars and trucks. Electrics are smooth running and ...
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Health Risks of Indoor Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter and Practical Mitigation Solutions

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. The COVID-19 pandemic taught many hard lessons. Among the most prominent of these was ...
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EPA has tightened its target for deadly particle pollution − states need more tools to reach it

Daniel Cohan has previously received research grants from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and serves on its Board of Scientific Counselors but is writing in a personal capacity. He worked ...

That cosy candle? It’s also polluting the air you’re breathing

We also measured chemical compounds in the air, and found that burning candles produced not only soot particles but gases such as nitrogen dioxide and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) – a group ...