Published April 8, 2024
Chiang Mai, a city in northern Thailand popular with tourists, faces seasonal spikes in air pollution.
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Published November 30, 2023
Many cities have shortages of air quality monitors. NASA scientists have developed a tool called GEOS-CF that can help.
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Published November 20, 2023
Even with fewer fires than normal in fall 2023, poor air quality plagued the region.
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Published November 14, 2023
Flanked by mountain ranges on three sides, the basin in northwestern China sees frequent dust storms.
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Published November 1, 2023
Satellite observations show that students of color in the U.S. attend public schools with higher concentrations of air pollution than their white peers.
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Published May 24, 2023
Fierce fires in Canada are the source of smoke that has swirled across much of the continent.
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Published March 17, 2023
NASA research finds that a combination of windblown dust and human-caused particle pollution was associated with nearly 3 million premature deaths in 2019.
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Published March 7, 2023
A team of scientists mapped nitrogen dioxide in California’s air at the neighborhood scale and found hotspots of the air pollutant near high-rise buildings and food processing facilities.
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Published March 1, 2023
In the wake of a cold front, strong winds lofted dust into the air over northern Mexico, eastern New Mexico, and northwestern Texas.
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Published February 16, 2023
Snowy surfaces increase the chance of temperature inversions, which contribute to air quality problems in the Salt Lake City area.
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Published February 2, 2023
The waters of an ancient lake once pooled in this basin in southwestern China. Now haze and air pollution do the same.
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Published December 13, 2022
A rare December sandstorm in China darkened skies in several cities.
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