air quality

Neighbors in West Dallas have been fighting to remove a GAF shingle factory and Tuesday the company issued a statement suggesting it is willing to consider the idea.

Ozone is a beneficial gas in our atmosphere but when it’s highly concentrated at ground-level, it can have a harmful impact on our respiratory systems. Here’s what you need to know.

You may have heard someone say that today is an Ozone Action Day. But what does that mean and what should you do about it?

The clear skies greeting Olympic athletes in Beijing this month are a stark change from just a decade ago when the city’s notorious air pollution often made it difficult to make out nearby buildings.

UT Dallas researchers, in collaboration with NASA, used air quality data and COVID 19 hospitalization rates to show correlation between the two.

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

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.

Health care and inclusiveness are rising as factors to be ranked a top U.S. state to live and work in.

After a year of the pandemic, social upheaval and mass remote work, these ten states are America’s best places to live.

Nataly Keomoungkhoun with The Dallas Morning News joins NBC 5 to explain how shutdowns during the coronavirus pandemic affected the air we breathe in Texas and around the country.

Breathing disorders are higher in some Dallas neighborhoods than others and experts want to know why. A series of nine new air monitors have been installed in Dallas neighborhoods to compare parts of the city with high rates of childhood asthma to other areas with fewer breathing problems and less poverty.

“If you are exposed for 12 hours of smoke in the air, then that is like 12 hours of continued smoking,” says Dr. Zab Mosenifar, a critical care pulmonologist at Cedars Sinai Medical Center.

Rob Mayeda explains why the sky turned from blue to orange due to the wildfires.

The brownish-orange glow appearing around the Bay Area looks to be a combination of wildfire smoke and ash, some of which is making to the ground.

For people living on the West Coast, poor air quality and smoky conditions have been a fact of life in recent weeks. We have some tips from our friends at NBC Los Angeles about how to keep yourself as healthy as possible when living with smoke and ash.