#airpollution — Public Fediverse posts

Global Energy Monitor: U.S. gas power proposals tied to data centers nearly doubled in the first half of 2026. “The Global Oil and Gas Plant Tracker² now counts 189 gigawatts (GW) of gas-fired capacity in the U.S. across the announced, pre-construction, and construction phases, which is intended to meet the exponential increase in electricity demand brought by the booming data center […]

Global Energy Monitor: U.S. gas power proposals tied to data centers nearly doubled in the first half of 2026. “The Global Oil and Gas Plant Tracker² now counts 189 gigawatts (GW) of gas-fired capacity in the U.S. across the announced, pre-construction, and construction phases, which is intended to meet the exponential increase in electricity demand brought by the booming data center […]

Global Energy Monitor: U.S. gas power proposals tied to data centers nearly doubled in the first half of 2026. “The Global Oil and Gas Plant Tracker² now counts 189 gigawatts (GW) of gas-fired capacity in the U.S. across the announced, pre-construction, and construction phases, which is intended to meet the exponential increase in electricity demand brought by the booming data center […]

Global Energy Monitor: U.S. gas power proposals tied to data centers nearly doubled in the first half of 2026. “The Global Oil and Gas Plant Tracker² now counts 189 gigawatts (GW) of gas-fired capacity in the U.S. across the announced, pre-construction, and construction phases, which is intended to meet the exponential increase in electricity demand brought by the booming data center […]

Global Energy Monitor: U.S. gas power proposals tied to data centers nearly doubled in the first half of 2026. “The Global Oil and Gas Plant Tracker² now counts 189 gigawatts (GW) of gas-fired capacity in the U.S. across the announced, pre-construction, and construction phases, which is intended to meet the exponential increase in electricity demand brought by the booming data center […]

London’s Ulez linked to healthier lung growth in children

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.positive.news/environment/londons-ulez-linked-to-healthier-lung-growth-in-children/

Haze and air quality index: Things to know

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.rappler.com/environment/things-to-know-haze-air-quality-index/

https://www.europesays.com/africa/404436/ Kenya’s mitumba market clothes millions, but dumped textiles may harbor E. coli #AirPollution #BadFastFashionIndustryNews #BadNews #BreakUpWithFastFashion #Business #ChangeTheWayYouGetNewClothes #fashion #FastFashion #Home #Kenya #Plastic #WasteLess #YahooNews

London’s low emission zone is working – so why are cities around the world so cautious about clean air? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/23/london-low-emission-zone-working-other-cities-cautious-clean-air

#London #environment #AirQuality #AirPollution #traffic #emissions

London’s low emission zone is working – so why are cities around the world so cautious about clean air? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/23/london-low-emission-zone-working-other-cities-cautious-clean-air

#London #environment #AirQuality #AirPollution #traffic #emissions

London’s low emission zone is working – so why are cities around the world so cautious about clean air? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/23/london-low-emission-zone-working-other-cities-cautious-clean-air

#London #environment #AirQuality #AirPollution #traffic #emissions

London’s low emission zone is working – so why are cities around the world so cautious about clean air? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/23/london-low-emission-zone-working-other-cities-cautious-clean-air

#London #environment #AirQuality #AirPollution #traffic #emissions

London’s low emission zone is working – so why are cities around the world so cautious about clean air? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/23/london-low-emission-zone-working-other-cities-cautious-clean-air

#London #environment #AirQuality #AirPollution #traffic #emissions

Thriving lichen-loving moth is an exception to the rule | Letter
By Guardian Staff

Mark R Shaw says airborne pollutants have caused a massive decline in insect numbers, in response to a Country Diary

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/31/thriving-lichen-loving-moth-is-an-exception-to-the-rule

#Insects #Wildlife #Environment #Pollution #Airpollution #UKnews #TheGuardian #GuardianStaff

Vulnerability to wildfire smoke is in our genes, thanks to an evolutionary quirk
#Health #WildfireSmoke #Wildfires #AirPollution #ClimateChange #Dust #PublicHealth #Environment #HumanHealth #Science #Canada #WildfireSeason
https://the-14.com/vulnerability-to-wildfire-smoke-is-in-our-genes-thanks-to-an-evolutionary-quirk/

Vulnerability to wildfire smoke is in our genes, thanks to an evolutionary quirk
#Health #WildfireSmoke #Wildfires #AirPollution #ClimateChange #Dust #PublicHealth #Environment #HumanHealth #Science #Canada #WildfireSeason
https://the-14.com/vulnerability-to-wildfire-smoke-is-in-our-genes-thanks-to-an-evolutionary-quirk/

Vulnerability to wildfire smoke is in our genes, thanks to an evolutionary quirk
#Health #WildfireSmoke #Wildfires #AirPollution #ClimateChange #Dust #PublicHealth #Environment #HumanHealth #Science #Canada #WildfireSeason
https://the-14.com/vulnerability-to-wildfire-smoke-is-in-our-genes-thanks-to-an-evolutionary-quirk/

Vulnerability to wildfire smoke is in our genes, thanks to an evolutionary quirk
#Health #WildfireSmoke #Wildfires #AirPollution #ClimateChange #Dust #PublicHealth #Environment #HumanHealth #Science #Canada #WildfireSeason
https://the-14.com/vulnerability-to-wildfire-smoke-is-in-our-genes-thanks-to-an-evolutionary-quirk/

Vulnerability to wildfire smoke is in our genes, thanks to an evolutionary quirk
#Health #WildfireSmoke #Wildfires #AirPollution #ClimateChange #Dust #PublicHealth #Environment #HumanHealth #Science #Canada #WildfireSeason
https://the-14.com/vulnerability-to-wildfire-smoke-is-in-our-genes-thanks-to-an-evolutionary-quirk/

Report finds rock art damage more extensive than thought
By Alistair Bates and Kimberley Putland

The Murujuga Rock Art monitoring program finds pollutants from previous industrial activity have damaged a larger area of ancient rock art on the Burrup Peninsula than previously thought.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-26/pilbara-murujuga-rock-monitoring-report/107075210

#EnvironmentalImpacts #IndigenousAustralians #AirPollution #IndigenousCulture #Industry #AlistairBates #KimberleyPutland

Delhi's electric tuktuk boom gets a hacking shock
By Angus Mackintosh, Rachel Clayton, and Som Patidar

Rickshaw drivers are pushing back on plans to ban all new non-electric versions of the vehicle from next January.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-22/delhi-electric-rickshaws-ev-policy-india/107055812

#ElectricVehicles #AirPollution #SharedTransport #HumanInterest #AngusMackintosh #RachelClayton #SomPatidar

Huh, forest fires everywhere.

#sofiaflorina #ソフィアフロリナ #forestfire #forestfires #wildfire #wildfires #forest #forest #fire #fires #environment #environmental #enviroment #enviromental #indonesia #kalimantan #borneo #indonesian #indonesians #sad #imsad #iamsad #savenature #saveearth #pollution #airpollution #ecology #ecosystem #elnino #elniño #drought #climate #southeastasia #asia #everywhere

Plasticised paper – tomorrow’s pollution

First posted some years ago now and we are still producing this unnecessary garbage. You only have to look at where micro and nano plastic particles are to be found to realise what a dumb species we are. From the ones in our bodies, our organs and those crossing our blood brain barriers, to those found in the air at the top of mountains forming condensation nuclei, our pollution, due to our stupidity and greed is global.

25th January 2021

I was given this small complementary piece of chocolate. First it was wrapped in a piece of what looked like silver foil or paper with a whitish backing paper in contact with the chocolate. Then it was wrapped in this. Will it be burnt ending up polluting somebody’s lungs or will it end up breaking down in the environment and the microplastic particles find there way through the oceans, soil and the food chains until one of us eats it? Modern, convenient life needs to change

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My author page where you can discover more about my books, https://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B07D3ZTQ1L.

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Plasticised paper – tomorrow’s pollution

First posted some years ago now and we are still producing this unnecessary garbage. You only have to look at where micro and nano plastic particles are to be found to realise what a dumb species we are. From the ones in our bodies, our organs and those crossing our blood brain barriers, to those found in the air at the top of mountains forming condensation nuclei, our pollution, due to our stupidity and greed is global.

25th January 2021

I was given this small complementary piece of chocolate. First it was wrapped in a piece of what looked like silver foil or paper with a whitish backing paper in contact with the chocolate. Then it was wrapped in this. Will it be burnt ending up polluting somebody’s lungs or will it end up breaking down in the environment and the microplastic particles find there way through the oceans, soil and the food chains until one of us eats it? Modern, convenient life needs to change

Our links

Our Teemill shop site for our organic cotton clothes and bags, https://junagarh-media.teemill.com/.

My author page where you can discover more about my books, https://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B07D3ZTQ1L.

This is our website for all our photography and my books, https://www.junagarhmedia.co.uk/.

We are also on Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/21104365@N06/.

Also on Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/junagarh_media/.

Our Etsy shop https://junagarhmedia.etsy.com/.

On Pinterest, https://www.pinterest.co.uk/paulpaddington2017/

Do patients who suffer heart attack have more micro and nanoplastic in their blood? New study assessed
#Health #HeartHealth #HeartAttack #Science #Tobacco #Microplastics #Nanoplastics #Environment #Pollution #AirPollution #PlasticPollution #Smoking
https://the-14.com/do-patients-who-suffer-heart-attack-have-more-micro-and-nanoplastic-in-their-blood-new-study-assessed/

Do patients who suffer heart attack have more micro and nanoplastic in their blood? New study assessed
#Health #HeartHealth #HeartAttack #Science #Tobacco #Microplastics #Nanoplastics #Environment #Pollution #AirPollution #PlasticPollution #Smoking
https://the-14.com/do-patients-who-suffer-heart-attack-have-more-micro-and-nanoplastic-in-their-blood-new-study-assessed/

Do patients who suffer heart attack have more micro and nanoplastic in their blood? New study assessed
#Health #HeartHealth #HeartAttack #Science #Tobacco #Microplastics #Nanoplastics #Environment #Pollution #AirPollution #PlasticPollution #Smoking
https://the-14.com/do-patients-who-suffer-heart-attack-have-more-micro-and-nanoplastic-in-their-blood-new-study-assessed/

Do patients who suffer heart attack have more micro and nanoplastic in their blood? New study assessed
#Health #HeartHealth #HeartAttack #Science #Tobacco #Microplastics #Nanoplastics #Environment #Pollution #AirPollution #PlasticPollution #Smoking
https://the-14.com/do-patients-who-suffer-heart-attack-have-more-micro-and-nanoplastic-in-their-blood-new-study-assessed/

Do patients who suffer heart attack have more micro and nanoplastic in their blood? New study assessed
#Health #HeartHealth #HeartAttack #Science #Tobacco #Microplastics #Nanoplastics #Environment #Pollution #AirPollution #PlasticPollution #Smoking
https://the-14.com/do-patients-who-suffer-heart-attack-have-more-micro-and-nanoplastic-in-their-blood-new-study-assessed/

Air pollution slows lung growth during childhood, UK study shows https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/29/air-pollution-slows-lung-growth-childhood-uk-study

#UnitedKingdom #UK #environment #pollution #AirPollution #health #PublicHealth #lungs #childhood

Burning wood for power worse for climate than gas equivalent, report finds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/20/burning-wood-power-worse-climate-than-gas-new-report #Energy #Environment #Drax #EnergyIndustry #AirPollution #EmissionsTrading #GreenhouseGasEmissions #CarbonCaptureAndStorageCcs #Biofuels

https://www.europesays.com/people/10565/ Government approves construction permit for Bill Gates-backed TerraPower commercial nuclear reactor #AirPollution #BillGates #Business #CleanEnergy #ClimateHero #HeroPerson #home #SolarPanels #WasteLess #YahooNews

Government approves construction permit for Bill Gates-backed TerraPower commercial nuclear reactor

Photo Credit: Getty Images On March 4, for the first time in eight years, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory…
#Nuclear #airpollution #business #cleanenergy #ClimateHero #HeroPerson #home #nuclear #solarpanels #WasteLess #YahooNews
https://www.europesays.com/2897457/

@climatenewsnow

Interesting article -
#2badItsPaywalled
(and also, it isn't about climate change)

Here's an open access academic article about toxic airplane cabin air -

Burden of Proof: The Debate Surrounding Aerotoxic Syndrome [2022]
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9452852/

"... some manufacturers developed a safer alternative. Boeing Aircraft introduced a new air intake system for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, which does not use bleed air to supply the cabin; instead, air intakes have been mounted along the root of the front wings, thereby reducing the risk of contamination."

#AerotoxicSyndrome #AirTravel #OccupationalHealth #organophosphates #AirPollution

Ambiguous impulses for your mental cinema!
#contemporaryArt #mentalCinema #analogArt #painting #rubberStamp #reliefPrinting #saveBioDiversity #climateActionNow #systemChange #endFossilFuels #makeArtNotWar #noAFD #NoRacism #NoFascism #humanRights #humanDignity #Нетвойны #dancingdeath #mementomori #vanitas #fragilitas #finiteness #mortality #gasmask #airPollution #toxicGas #suffocate #airPollution #screamingLoud #screamingHeads #screamingMen #helicopter #troopCarrier #tinCan #soldiers

Ambiguous impulses for your mental cinema!
#contemporaryArt #mentalCinema #analogArt #painting #rubberStamp #reliefPrinting #saveBioDiversity #climateActionNow #systemChange #endFossilFuels #makeArtNotWar #noAFD #NoRacism #NoFascism #humanRights #humanDignity #Нетвойны #dancingdeath #mementomori #vanitas #fragilitas #finiteness #mortality #gasmask #airPollution #toxicGas #suffocate #airPollution #screamingLoud #screamingHeads #screamingMen #helicopter #troopCarrier #tinCan #soldiers

Ambiguous impulses for your mental cinema!
#contemporaryArt #mentalCinema #analogArt #painting #rubberStamp #reliefPrinting #saveBioDiversity #climateActionNow #systemChange #endFossilFuels #makeArtNotWar #noAFD #NoRacism #NoFascism #humanRights #humanDignity #Нетвойны #dancingdeath #mementomori #vanitas #fragilitas #finiteness #mortality #gasmask #airPollution #toxicGas #suffocate #airPollution #screamingLoud #screamingHeads #screamingMen #helicopter #troopCarrier #tinCan #soldiers

Ambiguous impulses for your mental cinema!
#contemporaryArt #mentalCinema #analogArt #painting #rubberStamp #reliefPrinting #saveBioDiversity #climateActionNow #systemChange #endFossilFuels #makeArtNotWar #noAFD #NoRacism #NoFascism #humanRights #humanDignity #Нетвойны #dancingdeath #mementomori #vanitas #fragilitas #finiteness #mortality #gasmask #airPollution #toxicGas #suffocate #airPollution #screamingLoud #screamingHeads #screamingMen #helicopter #troopCarrier #tinCan #soldiers

🫁 Toxic Salton Sea dust triggers changes in lung microbiome after just one week

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-toxic-salton-sea-triggers-lung.html

#health #california #saltonsea #microbiome #lungs #airpollution #airquality

Scientists call for action to address air pollution from space launches https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/22/scientists-call-for-action-air-pollution-space-launches #science #space #RocketLaunches #satellites #SpaceDebris #pollution #AirPollution

Vietnam to ban fossil-fuel motorcycles in Hanoi to combat pollution

Vietnam will ban fossil-fuel motorcycles and mopeds in the heart of the capital, Hanoi, starting next July, as…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #Airpollution #AU #Australia #Climatechange #Electricvehicles #EuropeanChamberofCommerce #Fossil-fuelmotorcycles #Grab #hanoi #Motorcycles #Science #SoutheastAsia #traffic #Vietnam #VinFast
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/9492/

#FortOrd #MontereyCounty

"The Army’s Direct Notification Program is a free service to the community to provide notification for our prescribed burns. You must register for this service every year you wish to be notified….The burn season starts July 1st and ends December 31st (unless extended by permission of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service).”
#PrescribedBurns #AirPollution

https://fortordcleanup.com/prescribed-burns/notification/

#PenobscotNation and #ConservationLawFoundation appeal to stop #JuniperRidgeLandfill expansion

Maine Public | By Carol Bousquet
Published November 13, 2024

"The Penobscot Nation and Conservation Law Foundation have filed an appeal in Superior Court to stop the expansion of the Juniper Ridge Landfill in #OldTownMaine.

"In October the state concluded that the expansion was in the public's interest and set several conditions that #Casella Waste Management must meet to move forward with the project.

"Alexandra St. Pierre of the Conservation Law Foundation said the expansion runs contrary to the state's waste management goals, which prioritize reduction of waste volume and using #landfills.

"'Our goal here is to ensure that the decision is consistent with environmental justice and with the solid waste hierarchy as the law requires,' St. Pierre said.

"The Penobscot Nation and #CLF said that in its finding, the state failed to guarantee the safety of residents and the #environment.

"They argue that harmful exposure to #PFAS in the landfill's #leachate, #AirPollution and contamination of the #PenobscotRiver will all increase.

"'And we're really hoping we'll get adequate consideration for the issues that we raised and that the people actually themselves are considered and that #EnvironmentalJustice is implemented,' St. Pierre said.

"The DEP said it is unable to comment on pending litigation."

https://www.mainepublic.org/courts-and-crime/2024-11-13/penobscot-nation-and-conservation-law-foundation-appeal-to-stop-juniper-ridge-landfill-expansion

#MaineDEP #WabanakiConfederacy #WaterIsLife #AirIsLife #EnvironmentalRacism #IndianIsland #Penobscot #MaineEnvironmentalNews #Maine

The Drinking Water Crisis That North Carolina Ignored

For decades, #DuPont dumped toxic PFAS into North Carolina’s #CapeFearRiver. Today, the local community is suffering the health consequences—and fighting back.

June 7, 2021

[...]

"The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (#NCDEQ) filed a lawsuit against #Chemours in 2017—but only in response to bad press—and last fall, the state attorney general filed another. And yet, North Carolina is currently reviewing its water quality standards, something it does every three years, but not one rule for PFAS pollution is even up for consideration. 'People know they’re being poisoned, but the state isn’t doing much about it,' Bell says.

"So residents have been taking matters into their own hands. In July 2018, #CapeFearRiverWatch, represented by the Southern Environmental Law Center (#SELC), sued the #NCDEQ to force Chemours to immediately stop polluting the Cape Fear River. The following month, the pair also filed a federal lawsuit against Chemours for violating the #CleanWaterAct and #ToxicSubstancesControlAct, but it was dropped later in the year as part of a $13 million #settlement among the NCDEQ, Cape Fear River Watch, and Chemours. The settlement resulted in a consent order that required Chemours to cease its discharges and add #scrubbers to its smokestacks to prevent airborne PFAS pollution. The outcome is a critical step in preventing future PFAS pollution, but NCDEQ has had to fine the company for not complying with the order, and its past contamination, still lingering in the #water, #soil, and peoples’ bodies, remains unaddressed."

Read more:
https://www.nrdc.org/stories/drinking-water-crisis-north-carolina-ignored

#PFASPollution #WaterIsLife
#OceansAreLife #PollutionRunoff #WebOfLife #SoilPollution #Cancer #AirPollution

Digital painting: Ambiguous impulses for your own mental cinema!
#contemporaryArt #mentalCinema #digitalPainting #virtualPainting #aiAssistedArt #digitalArt #saveBioDiversity #climateActionNow #systemChange #endFossilFuels #makeArtNotWar #fckFdp #fckAfd #Нетвойны #bigEye #anatomy #biology #watchingYou #observation #surveillance #childDrawing #graffiti #streetArt #helicopter #troopCarrier #tinCan #soldiers #military #armsIndustry #blueSky #clouds #soldier #gasMask #toxicGas #airPollution #redRose

Wildfire smoke is an increasing threat to Canadians’ health
#Canada #Health #Environment #ClimateChange #Emissions #Asthma #AirPollution #AirQuality #Smoke #Wildfires #PM25 #WildfireHealth #AirQualityThreat #ClimateChangeImpact #CanadaWildfires #CleanAir
https://the-14.com/wildfire-smoke-is-an-increasing-threat-to-canadians-health/

#Pellets gibt es nicht nur aus Holz, sondern - noch als Seltenheit - aus #Laub! Das #Herbstlaub wird eingesammelt, getrocknet, gemalen, gepresst.

Macht mehr #Asche und der #Brennwert ist 10% geringer, dafür braucht man kein #Bindemittel und muss keine #Bäume abholzen, weil #Holzabfälle nicht ausreichen.

Also quasi eine verschlimmbesserte Version von #heizenmitholz?

#Pelletheizung #StopFakeRenewables #AirPollution #umweltschutz #klimaziele

https://www.morgenpost.de/ratgeber/article236981019/pellets-laub-heizstoff-blaetter-energiekrise-herstellung-deutschland.html

Where Does a Candle Go When It Burns? - Just saying, maybe go easy with the candelabras. - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/26/science/randall-munroe-candle-xkcd.html #greenhousegasemissions #respiratorydiseases #contenttype:service #your-feed-science #smokingandtobacco #your-feed-health #airpollution #candles