#air-pollution — Public Fediverse posts

Lithium giant's free car wash proposal 'ironic' for dust-covered town
By Neve Brissenden

Residents plagued by dust from Australia's oldest and largest lithium mine say a plan for a free car wash by the mine's owner misses the mark.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-14/talison-lithium-carwash-plan-greenbushes-dust/106673900

#MiningEnvironmentalIssues #Lithium #RegionalCommunities #MiningandMetalsIndustry #AirPollution #Environment #Health #NeveBrissenden

"xAI has added 19 natural gas turbines to its second data center campus in Southhaven, Mississippi, over the past two months, according to internal emails seen by WIRED.

The additions come as xAI is fighting a lawsuit from the NAACP and several environmental groups, alleging that the company is violating the Clean Air Act by operating more than two dozen natural gas turbines at the site without appropriate air permits.
Emails between an official in the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality and a representative from Trinity Consultants, obtained via a public records request by the Southern Environmental Law Center and shared with WIRED, show that xAI installed 19 portable gas turbines on its site in Southaven between late March and early May. That brings the total to 46 turbines operating at the site.
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A spreadsheet included in the email to MDEQ, has a column labeled “Total Power Output” that appears to list the megawatt capacity of each turbine on the site. xAI appears to have added more than 500 megawatts of natural gas turbines since mid-March."

https://www.wired.com/story/xai-adds-19-new-gas-turbines-despite-ongoing-lawsuit/

#AI #GenerativeAI #xAI #USA #Mississipi #AirPollution #DataCenters

Labour must fulfil promise to introduce clean air act, charities urge https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/13/labour-must-fulfil-promise-to-introduce-clean-air-act-charities-urge #AirPollution #Environment #KingsSpeech #Politics #UkNews

Rivian rolls out ‘Hey Rivian’ AI assistant with full vehicle control

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://electrek.co/2026/05/12/rivian-hey-rivian-ai-assistant-vehicle-control/

Trump’s rollback of toxic gas rules limits EPA’s authority to protect public health, analysis says https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/12/trump-rollback-eto-pollution-epa #UsNews #Environment #UsEnvironmentalProtectionAgency #TrumpAdministration #Pollution #AirPollution

Mississippi Today: xAI now has 46 gas turbines without air permits. State officials are ‘evaluating the situation’. “The company uses the turbines to power its two data centers just across the state line in Memphis, and is also planning to build another large center in Southaven. XAI now has 46 ‘temporary-mobile’ turbines at its Mississippi facility, according to the Mississippi Department […]

🏭 Aussie researchers found that there is a link here between air pollution exposure and the risk of ending up in the hospital with lung and heart issues

✨Follow the link for more information on this story✨
https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/air-pollution-in-australia-linked-to-heart-and-lung-hospitalisations

#science #sciencenews #research #stem #facts #knowledge #sciencefacts #airpollution #pollution #airpollution #heartissues #lungissues

New report recommends phasing out diesel vehicles to improve air quality
By Jonathon Kendall

A new study has found a clear link between air pollution exposure and the risk of ending up in hospital. It's a battle Julia Ovens knows only too well.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-12/air-quality-report-pollution-asthma-australia-research/106666646

#AirPollution #Health #Asthma #JonathonKendall

#News: Are you breathing toxic #air? 😷🌍 Shocking #report reveals only 13 countries in the world meet safe #airquality #pollution standards. #Fossilfuels and #climatechange driven wildfires are choking our planet. Act now on 🛑🔥 #AirPollution #BoycottFossilFuels @palmoildetectives https://www.euronews.com/2026/03/24/only-13-countries-in-the-world-breathe-safe-air-three-of-them-are-in-europe?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

Smog, Lies and Pineapples: How LA Cleaned up Its Air and What’s Left to Do

As a child growing up in Southern California, Ann Carlson remembers mountains obscured by haze and yellowish brown…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Environment #Airpollution #AirQuality #Books #California #Losangeles #q&a #Science #Smog
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/633906/

Study Finds Higher Air Pollution Levels Increase Risk of Post-Surgical Complications

📰 Original title: Air Pollution Tied to Poorer Post-Surgery Outcomes

🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅

View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/study-finds-higher-air-pollution-levels-increase-risk-of-post-surgical-complications/?redirpost=4f319445-5105-4fd9-bc36-a11de1138ad7&utm_source=mastodon_world&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=killbait

#health #airpollution #surgery

Metro Manila air still carries toxic lead decades after gasoline phaseout https://phys.org/news/2026-04-metro-manila-air-toxic-decades.html

#MetroManila #environment #AirPollution #gasoline #lead

Investigators head to Geraldton as dust fears rise with iron ore expansion
By Joanna Prendergast, Chris Lewis, and Piper Duffy

Geraldton residents say dust from expanding iron ore operations is blanketing homes, boats and businesses, fuelling fears the coastal city could turn into "the next Port Hedland".

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-09/dust-fears-surround-growing-port-of-geraldton/106627060

#AirPollution #MiningEnvironmentalIssues #RegionalCommunities #EnvironmentalImpacts #IronOre #EnvironmentalHealth #JoannaPrendergast #ChrisLewis # #PiperDuffy

The Conversation: Using diesel generators to power the AI revolution would kill hundreds of Americans a year. “The exact results varied with each simulation and with a range of assumptions about emissions from diesel generators. But in general, we found that using backup diesel generators this way would cause about 500 more premature deaths per year in the U.S. compared with getting the same […]

Large-scale sporting events cause unexpected air pollution, study shows https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/01/large-scale-sporting-events-cause-unexpected-air-pollution-study-shows

#environment #sport #pollution #AirPollution

Deadly air: Which European countries have the worst PM 2.5 levels?

The country of la Dolce Vita has a serious environmental problem: it has the highest local PM2.5 concentrations,…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #Airpollution #Data #environment #Environmentpollution #Europe #Health #HealthIndata #Science #UK #UnitedKingdom
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/569271/

Deadly air: Which European countries have the worst PM 2.5 levels?

The country of la Dolce Vita has a serious environmental problem: it has the highest local PM2.5 concentrations,…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #Airpollution #CA #Canada #data #Environmentpollution #Europe #Health #HealthIndata #Science
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/651423/

Deadly air: Which European countries have the worst PM 2.5 levels?

The country of la Dolce Vita has a serious environmental problem: it has the highest local PM2.5 concentrations,…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Environment #Airpollution #data #Environmentpollution #Europe #Health #HealthIndata #Science
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/626733/

Babies exposed to air pollution during pregnancy take longer to learn to speak, research finds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/29/babies-exposed-to-air-pollution-during-pregnancy-take-longer-to-learn-to-speak-research-finds

#environment #pollution #AirPollution #learning

Short version: #DAC is not the panacea it's presented as, and deployment of DAC instead more renewable systems is no beneficial.

Well worth reading the thread, and the article summary:

https://bsky.app/profile/mzjacobson.bsky.social/post/3ml22lvr2oc25

#ClimateCrisis #AirPollution

"Babies exposed to air pollution during pregnancy take longer to learn to speak, research finds"

#Pollution #AirPollution #Health

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/29/babies-exposed-to-air-pollution-during-pregnancy-take-longer-to-learn-to-speak-research-finds

Les Zones à Faibles Émissions (ZFE) visent à améliorer la qualité de l’air en limitant la circulation des véhicules les plus polluants dans les zones urbaines. Alors que leur suppression a récemment été votée par l’Assemblée nationale en France, cette note propose une synthèse de la littérature scientifique sur leurs effets environnementaux, sanitaires et sociaux.

Les travaux empiriques montrent que les ZFE permettent effectivement de réduire les concentrations de polluants atmosphériques, notamment les particules fines et le dioxyde d’azote. Ces améliorations de la qualité de l’air s’accompagnent de bénéfices pour la santé, notamment une diminution de certaines maladies respiratoires et cardiovasculaires.

Cependant, ces politiques peuvent également générer des coûts pour une partie de la population, en particulier pour les ménages à faibles revenus ou vivant dans des zones mal desservies par les transports publics, et éloignés des centres-villes dont l’accès se trouve restreint. En mobilisant les méthodes de l’économie du bonheur, nous analysons l’impact global de la politique sur le bien-être subjectif des individus à partir du cas de l’Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) de Londres.

Nos résultats suggèrent que l’introduction de l’ULEZ s’accompagne à court terme d’une diminution de la satisfaction dans la vie, en particulier chez les travailleurs possédant une voiture et chez les individus vivant dans des zones faiblement dotées en transports publics. Ces résultats soulignent l’importance d’accompagner les politiques environnementales de dispositifs ciblés permettant de limiter leurs effets redistributifs négatifs.

Please like my new #article about #lichens and their role as #monitorspecies for #climaticchanges and #airpollution on YouTube:

http://youtube.com/post/UgkxusBM8nwtY62q_IxYVx38J4qt44zdJPob?si=l402ltWU467vdr67

My article is presenting a short #macro series of the #lichen #Parmelia #sulcata, which I #photographed in the #urban #forest area #Jungfernheide in #Berlin in March 2026, close to a wetland area, the lake Flughafensee.
© #StefanFWirth, Berlin, May 2026

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https://ko-fi.com/sfwirth

‘Living in survival mode’: Houston’s embattled immigrant community faces health, climate and petrochemical crises https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/02/houston-texas-immigrants-ice-health-extreme-weather #Houston #UsImmigration #Pollution #Flooding #AirPollution #Race #ClimateCrisis #IceUsImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement #TrumpAdministration #HurricaneHarvey #Hurricanes #ExtremeWeather #OilAndGasCompanies #EnergyIndustry #Environment #Texas #UsPolitics #UsNews

My colleague will be presenting at the Air Sensors International Conference (ASIC) next week on our work estimating wildfire smoke impacts with low-cost sensors. I’ll also be talking about sensor evaluation. I’d love to connect if you’ll be there.

#airpollution #airquality #sensors #machinelearning

I’m excited to be heading to Los Angeles next week for the Air Sensors International Conference (ASIC) 2026. I’ll be sharing new findings from our work evaluating low‑cost air sensors for data fusion.

Presentation: In-Situ Evaluation of Low-Cost PM2.5 Sensor Networks Using a Novel Distance-Based Method Quantifies Sensor Uncertainty and Reveals Episodic Variability in Performance
Session: Air Sensor Degradation and Operating in Challenging Environments
Time: Thursday, May 7th, 2026 | 1:30–3:00 PM

If you’ll be at ASIC, I’d love to connect and exchange ideas.
#ASIC2026 #airquality #lowcostsensors #airpollution #datafusion

'Study was part of wider research following a cohort of children who underwent brain MRIs before or soon after birth, known as the Developing Human Connectome Project. The full study is published in @jphysiol.bsky.social'. @ukri.org
#AirPollution
https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/JP290327

Babies exposed to air pollution during pregnancy take longer to learn to speak, research finds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/29/babies-exposed-to-air-pollution-during-pregnancy-take-longer-to-learn-to-speak-research-finds #AirPollution #Pregnancy #Environment #LifeAndStyle #ParentsAndParenting