When the air outside is visibly thick with a brown and yellow haze of pollutants, Salt Lake County families retreat indoors, where it is arguably safer to breathe. But, what...
Hazy skies during the summer months should be as concerning as they look. The lingering hue could be heat, elevated ozone air pollution, or particulate pollution related to wildfire smoke...
Your nose runs and you might cough a few times during the day, even though you don’t have a cold. For otherwise healthy people, those are the immediate effects of a bad air day in Salt Lake City. And when the inversion goes away, so do those symptoms. But the inversion also impacts our health over the long term. Heidi Hanson is a researcher who investigates how polluted air affects people during the course of their lives. As a result, she is familiar with much of the research that has been done documenting the long-term effects of bad air. We ask her what we know about its impacts on long-term health, who the high-risk groups are and how serious the problem really is.
A team of University of Utah researchers has received a $5.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering to develop an informatics...
In the past five years, researchers have placed a greater focus on studying the effects of "near-roadway pollution." More research needs to be done, but many scientists are beginning to...
