Using inexpensive air filters may help reduce cardiovascular disease risk that results from exposure to air pollution, according to researchers from Canada, who studied healthy adultsliving in a small ...

How do we improve the quality of air we breathe around busy roads? A British entrepreneur says he's come up with a plan. Thomas Delgado has designed a device that sucks in polluted air, cleans it, ...

We independently review everything we recommend. We may make money from the links on our site. Learn more› By Liam McCabe HEPA filtration has become something like a modern-day talisman, a protective ...

N95 masks, also called N95 respirators, are personal protective equipment (PPE) that filter airborne particles such as ...

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Researchers in Copenhagen have created a market-ready anti-pollution filter designed to quickly remove nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and particulate matter from inside vehicles. They say the Airbubbl is the ...

Despite growing warnings about the health problems tied to traffic pollution, Los Angeles officials continue to approve a surge in residential development along freeways. And the crux of their effort ...

Material scientists at Stanford University have developed a highly effective semitransparent air filter that can collect 99 percent of the very small PM2.5 particles, considered the most harmful to ...

The 2016 ordinance signed by Garcetti required that new homes within 1,000 feet of a freeway have air filters meeting a standard of 13 on a 16-point industry scale — the minimum efficiency reporting ...

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When Tesla revealed that the Model X (and eventually, the Model S) would have a HEPA filter so effective that it could protect against bioweapons, people were understandably skeptical. Can it really ...

Using inexpensive air filters may help reduce cardiovascular disease risk that results from exposure to air pollution, according to researchers from Canada, who studied healthy adults living in a ...