air quality

Companies should be paying closer attention to how indoor air quality can help prevent the spread of Covid-19 and improve employees’ cognitive function.

Starting Monday, you’ll want to check Southern California’s air quality before lighting up the wood-burning fireplace or fire pit.

For generations, the pristine blue waters of Lake Tahoe have drawn nature lovers escaping their concrete jungles for a forest paradise. And though the area just escaped widespread devastation from the recent Caldor Fire, scientists are still seeing signs of the smoke’s impact on the lake’s water quality.

Parts of the Bay Area were under hazy skies Saturday due to smoke from the wildfires in Northern California and Oregon.
In the North Bay and East Bay, neighbors are really noticing.

Wildfires in the American West, including one burning in Oregon that’s currently the largest in the U.S., are creating hazy skies as far away as New York as the massive infernos spew smoke and ash into the air in columns up to 6 miles high.

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Fireworks lit of the sky and left behind a blanket of smoke, leaving Southern California with poor air quality.

The Port of San Diego is doubling shore power capability at its B Street and Broadway Pier cruise ship terminals to improve air quality and reduce greenhouse gas emissions on and around San Diego Bay, it was announced Monday.

A research project led by the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health found that Los Angeles County neighborhoods with poor air quality had the highest coronavirus death rates, it was announced Wednesday.

Two conservation groups filed a formal notice Thursday of their intent to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for its alleged failure to ensure San Diego County and other regions across the country rein in harmful air pollution. The Center for Biological Diversity and the Center for Environmental Health say San Diego and Ventura counties are among six regions...

The county Board of Supervisors on Wednesday unanimously approved a set of strategies, as part of an air pollution reduction plan for portside communities.

Wednesday is California Clean Air Day and in San Diego, the Metropolitan Transit System is celebrating with its zero emissions electric buses – which will, one day, make up the agency’s entire fleet.

NBC 7’s Audra Stafford shares how the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System is celebrating California Clean Air Day 2020, and how everyone can do their part to curb air pollution.

It was more than a simple shift in the wind that resulted in some of the cleanest air we’ve seen in a long time around the Bay Area, especially since the onset of the Glass Fire burning in the North Bay.

Air quality on Thursday will be unhealthy for a widespread part of Southern California near the Bobcat Fire burning in the San Gabriel Mountains.

NBC 7’s Alexis Rivas has more details on when to replace your air filter during a wildfire.

It hasn’t been too long since wildfires covered our county with a dreary haze for more than a week, turning the sky gray and turning sunsets orange and red. But even though the sky’s back to blue, you could still be breathing that bad air where you least expect it. Mike Reif has worked as a service tech with...

Due to air quality concerns in Seattle from the wildfires, the upcoming three-game series with the Seattle Mariners and San Diego Padres will be played at Petco Park instead of T-Mobile Park. Friday’s game will be at 6:40 p.m. at Petco Park, with Saturday’s game at 6:10 p.m. and Sunday’s series finale at 1:10 p.m. The Mariners will be...

Southern California’s awful air quality is finally showing signs of improvement. Air quality maps showed better conditions early Thursday into Friday, with a large swath of moderate air quality for Los Angeles and Riverside counties. Unhealthy levels are still reported near the Bobcat Fire in the San Gabriel Mountains, but skies filled with smoke earlier this week appeared to...