NORFOLK, Va. — Air quality can become an issue when wildfires spark across the U.S. and Canada or when densely populated areas use a lot of fossil fuels. Let's talk about how scientists measure air ...

Hurricanes? We measure them with the Saffir-Simpson Scale. Earthquakes? The Magnitude Scale. Air quality? We have a scale for that, too: the Air Quality Index (AQI). PHOTOS: Heavy wildfire smoke ...

It wasn’t that long ago that few people were monitoring the air—not the government, not its citizens. Today, weather apps provide estimates of outdoor air quality, and the government’s own air quality ...

Most people who've lived in the Coachella Valley for a while have experienced the high winds that kick dust into the air, leading to sneezing, coughing and sometimes more serious health effects. But ...

Researchers have built an explainable hybrid deep learning framework that predicts India's Air Quality Index with unprecedented accuracy while tolerating more than half of the sensor data being ...