Air Quality

The dust can be dangerous, especially for people with lung conditions or otherwise compromised health. But it can also quell hurricane activity in the Atlantic, fertilize depleted soils and bring striking sunsets.

Dangerous emissions and increasingly hot days are combining to worsen Austin's air quality.

Not only do fireworks scare animals and injure people, they are also bad for air quality when there's no wind to blow the smoke away.

Usually, Austin can expect a day or two a year when smoke in the air rises to a level deemed dangerous for some people. We've already had eight such days this year, and it's only May.

Despite air quality concerns, the CAMPO board opted to continue funding the I-35 expansion over worries the money could disappear.

Ozone, commonly known as smog, is a reactive gas that can have effects on respiratory and skin health.

A new report analyzing data gathered by the TECQ finds the drop stemmed largely from the pandemic-related downturn in the oil, gas and petrochemical industries. Rising production in 2021 is already leading to a comparable rise in illegal pollution.

Dust blown all the way from Africa’s Saharan Desert is arriving this week in Texas, which happens every year around this time.

Lee esta historia en español. As COVID-19 spread across the globe in the spring, people noticed a strange side-effect of the pandemic: The air was getting…

Austin’s air was more polluted with toxic particles than ever before in the period from 2016 through 2018, according to the American Lung Association. The…