Smoke from wildfires in Canada has drifted into the U.S., prompting air quality alerts for Americans as it continues to spread. But when officials and forecasters classify a city's air as "unhealthy" ...
Smoke from Canadian wildfires has impacted the air quality throughout United States, including in the northern High Plains, Midwest, Great Lakes, southern Mid-Atlantic and into the Northeast. This has ...
The U.S. Air Quality Index (AQI) is the Environmental Protection Agency’s tool for reporting outdoor air quality and health. The AQI includes six color-coded categories, each corresponding to a range ...
It is wildfire season, which could mean more air pollution, too. Here are a few tips to protect yourself. By Adeel Hassan and Hilary Howard Wildfires burning across Canada are generating clouds of ...
NEW YORK (WABC) -- The Air Quality Index is a scale used for daily reporting of how clean or polluted the air is, and what health effects might be of concern. The AQI focuses on what you might ...
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JUNE 7: A person waiting for the subway wears a filtered mask as smoky haze from wildfires in Canada blankets a neighborhood on June 7, 2023 in the Bronx borough of New York City.
Poor air quality has many people breaking out their pandemic masks for protection. Wildfire smoke can lead to coughing and wheezing, symptoms smokers experience. A new calculator estimates how the air ...
SALT LAKE CITY (KTVX) — On Friday, Feb. 4, Salt Lake City reached an air quality index score (AQI) of 154, which the state calls “unhealthy.” But what does that score really mean? According to an ...
The color-coded Air Quality Index categories you’ll find on the Environmental Protection Agency’s AirNow website rank air quality on a 500-point scale and are meant to give the public an easy way to ...