The classifications are based on a federal measurement system called the Air Quality Index. The Air Quality Index is used nationwide to measure the severity of air pollution and categorize the ...

New York City faces another air quality alert Thursday, along with some of the surrounding area. The alert will be in effect ...

As Canadian wildfires burn, Greater Lansing is seeing smoke, haze. On June 5, most of the Lower Peninsula is under an air ...

Although the majority of wildfires are occurring in western Canada, smoke from these fires has been drifting eastward, ...

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has issued an Air Quality Health Advisory for fine particulate matter. What to know.

A measure called the Air Quality Index gauges just how bad the air has become in a particular place. Readings of 100 or higher usually serve as a warning to people who have respiratory conditions ...

An air quality alert has been issued for much of the Chicago area Wednesday afternoon as Canadian wildfire smoke once again ...

The Air Quality Index (AQI) is used by various government agencies to report how clean or polluted the air is in your area. For example, you may have spotted this metric popping up in local ...

Indicators like the Air Quality Index (AQI), commonly used to track air pollution levels, provide a rough sense of the pollution floating in the skies. But those types of indicators don't capture ...

Donate now. Angelenos still bothered by the smell of smoke may be surprised to see that Air Quality Index numbers returned to “healthy” or “moderate” levels this week in L.A. County ...

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