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Only seven countries met World Health Organization (WHO) air quality standards last year, data showed on Tuesday, as researchers warned that the war on smog would only get harder after the United States shut down its global monitoring efforts. "(It)...

Collins Gameli Hodoli remembers the warm glow of kerosene lamps lighting his childhood home. Now, Hodoli is spearheading the Malawi Initiative for Clean Air Solutions (MIfCAS), a pioneering project to establish the country’s first comprehensive air quality monitoring network with...

"Ensuring that air quality data is widely accessible and transparently shared is not just a technical necessity – it is a fundamental step toward safeguarding public health and achieving lasting solutions for cleaner air worldwide," writes Chris Hagerbaumer, Executive Director...

EPIC experts ask why the issue of air pollution, so interconnected to global health and climate change, remains so underfunded.

EPIC's Air Quality Fund aims to close the gap in what they consider one of the biggest threats to public health: air pollution.

With the new funding, the EPIC Air Quality Fund will support local groups and organisations in installing monitors and providing open data to communities that can benefit the most.

The EPIC Air Quality Fund, through a gift from Open Philanthropy, will bring air quality monitors and open pollution data to some of the world’s most polluted communities.

The EPIC Air Quality Fund, through Open Philanthropy, has earmarked the sum of $1.5million as special fund solely dedicated to expanding access to air quality data, bring air quality monitors and open pollution data to some of the world’s most...

"Considering the large potential benefits and relatively low cost, it's stunning that we don't have an organised global effort to deploy resources to close these data gaps, especially in places where the health burden of air pollution has been largest,"...

A report by the University of Chicago highlighting air quality data gaps reveals which countries could benefit from small, strategic investments in air pollution monitoring.