How Does Wildfire Smoke Affect Our Health?
18 million hectares of bushland were destroyed during the Australian Wildfires of 2019. The resulting smoke plume spanned an area of 1.3 billion acres, which roughly equates to the size of the 11 l...
Clean Air: A Basic Human Right
Polluted air is a global health crisis. Every minute ten adults die prematurely because of dirty air inhaled over their lifetime. The five million deaths annually attributed to air pollution is lar...
Why High-filtration Masks are Superior to Cloth Masks
“We don’t want people to think that just any piece of cloth is good enough and have a false sense of security.” These were the words of Dr. Scott Segal, chair of anaesthesiology at Wake Forest ...
How to Choose the Best Mask, According to Science
So, you are looking at getting yourself a face mask? Good Call. 2020 has demonstrated that protecting yourself from exposure to harmful particulate matter is now a necessity in today’s world. From...
Air pollution is the silent killer that we are not talking about, it’s time we stopped taking the air we breathe for granted. We must become empowered and informed around the dangers of air polluti...