India's Air Quality Index (AQI) translates pollution levels into health risks, classifying air quality into six categories. PM2.5, a key pollutant, deeply impacts lungs and bloodstream, with levels of ...

In her Anti-Racism Daily column, Nicole Cardoza explains the relationship between air pollution and COVID-19, particularly for communities of color. I had hoped that our COVID-19 reporting would be a ...

More expensive cars emit lower levels of pollution—meaning that motorists owning cheaper, higher-emitting vehicles contribute disproportionately to their local urban air quality problems, a new study ...

A report on air quality found year-round pollution in the Little Rock metro area is getting worse, with the average level of particle pollution, or soot, in the metro area tying for the worst in the ...

CHARLOTTE — Mecklenburg County’s air quality has worsened since last year, according to the American Lung Association’s annual State of the Air report. The report analyzes and documents high ...

Just over a year ago, the Spartanburg Soil and Water Conservation District partnered with USC-Upstate and the Watershed Ecology Center to install and maintain a ''Watergoat' on Persimmon Creek, which ...

From Camden and Cherry Hill to Trenton and the Jersey Shore, what about life in New Jersey do you want WHYY News to cover? Let us know. About one in three Garden State residents — 2.7 million people — ...

The EPA is moving to narrow the definitions of protected waterways under the Clean Water Act, opening many waterways to pollution and destruction.

On December 22, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued an opinion in Water Quality Insurance Syndicate v. U.S., which reversed the Coast Guard’s National Pollution Funds Center’s ...