AIR8 Magazine

It sounds like something out of a Science Fiction dystopia, but research has found that intelligence can be affected by exposure to air pollution

How is air pollution related to Osteoporosis? Just when we thought that air pollution couldn’t become even more harmful, research has found that our very bones can become brittle by being exposed to it.

Availability of air pollution data is not as transparent as most of us think. Some governments are lagging in their efforts to cut down on air pollution and are keeping quiet about it. Yet, citizen science and grassroots projects can help ordinary people make informed decisions.

It is true: indoors can be as polluted as outdoors, sometimes even more, and these also apply to offices. What is also true is that we rarely pay attention at just how polluted they are.

A team of researchers are working on a novel way to predict high concentrations of polluted air over cities, thus reducing exposure and hospital admissions.

Data from 2019 has found that air pollution was directly responsible for the death of one out of six people around the world. There are no reasons to believe things have improved since then.

It is already bad enough that COVID will be a part of our lives from now on, but new research has discovered that the Pandemic could have been less severe if certain air pollutants hadn’t been around.

Although outside of CO2 emissions and global warming we rarely think about air quality, it is actually a major issue worldwide. Air pollution is one of the leading causes of death around the world — the World Health Organization estimates that more than 4 million people die due to air pollution each year. Studies show […]

The atmosphere and the quality of the air inside hotels and restaurants has always been an essential determiner of their success: the ambience determines how comfortable the customers feel and how much they enjoy the food and experience.

UCLA researchers have found that exposure to air pollution has harmful effects on pregnancy, for example, it can cause cellular changes in the placenta.