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During haze, the 1-hour PM2.5 reading shows current air quality and helps plan immediate outdoor activities, while the 24-hour PSI forecast guides planning for the next day.
Andy Burnham's buses plan is a blueprint for governing Britain, connecting people to cities and reducing social exclusion. The prime minister is right to think that taking Manchester's model national could widen opportunity, clean the air, and rebuild state capacity.
Major retailers in Singapore have sufficient stocks of N95 masks to meet demand if the haze situation worsens.
Severe wildfires in the US-Bundesstaat Washington have destroyed hundreds of homes and forced tens of thousands of people to flee. The authorities have called for around 65,000 residents of the city of Spokane to evacuate the area. The fires have left many homes with only…
Transport for London is pursuing a potential £1bn legal action against car manufacturers over vehicles that it argues should not have been allowed to drive freely in the capital's clean-air zone.
The air quality index (AQI) is a weather metric for the age of wildfires, but its forecasts can be slow and imprecise, and its particulars don't always have a bearing on direct experience. The AQI's color-coded warnings are useful only in the broadest sense, and the syste…
The World Cup final between Spain and Argentina is set to take place in New Jersey on Sunday, despite concerns over the impact of Canadian wildfire smoke on air quality and visibility.
The air quality in the eastern United States is bad due to smoke from Canadian wildfires. The smoke has turned the sky orange in Philadelphia and veiled the Statue of Liberty in Manhattan. The author compares the current air quality to that of 66 million years ago when an…
The World Cup final in New Jersey-New York hangs under a cloud of uncertainty as dense wildfire smoke billowing down from Canada has triggered unhealthy air quality alerts across the United States.