AI-generated image of students sitting in a classroom; one male student looks stressed, holding his head. Text overlay reads: “Air Pollution Hurts Attention and Emotion Skills” with "SMART AIR" logo above.

Breathing polluted air for just one hour can reduce your ability to focus and recognize emotions up to four hours later—even if you only breathe through your mouth.

Clean air helps your brain work better.

Study: nature.com/articles/s41...

‘Silent killer’: Taxpayer media finds ‘burning wood’ a threat to your health Sky News host Paul Murray discusses how taxpayer-funded media has found wood heater pollution as a "silent killer" in Australia. “Today, taxpayer media have finally found the big killer, the big danger, the thing we must do to save lives here at home and change the climate globally, and it is the fireplace at your joint,” Mr Murray said. “Yes, I am talking to you, right now if you are currently warming in an Australian winter with wood, either behind the glass, in the heater or in a beautiful fireplace where you can hear the crackle, well, guess what, my friends, you are part of the problem.”

The tired old “we‘ve been burning wood for thousands of years, so it most be okay” defense:
www.skynews.com.au/opinion/paul...

The Industry’s promises of greatly reduced #AirPollution from new ‘miracle’ eco stoves proved to be hollow: wood burning now UK’s largest source of deadly PM2.5 pollution.
Invisible & harmful, PM2.5 linked to heart attack, stroke, dementia, asthma & permanent harm to children’s growing bodies.

More importantly, our NEIGHBOUR’S heating choice should not impact our health. We get the brunt of the outrageous pollution levels with “modern” stoves being the single largest emission source of Benzo[a]pyrene, Benzene and many other toxic and carcinogenic emissions.

The case for health sector action for clean air Air pollution is now the second leading risk factor for death ahead of tobacco and poor diet globally; in the UK we see some of the worst childhood asthma rates in Europe: the need for the health…

💚 Calling the health sector! Please sign this @globalactionplan.bsky.social‬ letter, backed by ‪@greatormondst.bsky.social‬ & others. It asks Government to adopt World Health Organization #AirQuality guidelines to protect our #Health. This will be presented to MPs at next week's #CleanAirDay event.

Graphic shows an illustration of the brain, heart and lungs. Each has a caption with linked adverse affects air pollution can cause. Heart Health: Dementia, anxiety and depression. heart health: High blood pressure, strokes and heart attacks. Lung Health: Asthma, COPD and lung cancer.

Air pollution can harm every organ in your body, posing particular risks to your brain, heart and lung health ❤️‍🩹

This #CleanAirDay, learn more about the health harms of air pollution throughout our lives ⬇️

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Just signed.

The Government’s backward step on wood-burning stoves puts public health and climate action at risk The Government's decision to permit wood-burning stoves in new builds contradicts growing evidence about the harmful effects these stoves have on public health and the environment.

Impact on Urban Health are doing loads on wood burning:

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You have NOT cleaned the air in many outer London suburbs @london.gov.uk Until you acknowledge the damage from “”Ecodesign” stoves, the lives of vulnerable Londoners are at risk.This Breathe London node is a School Street in a low traffic part of ULEZ, yet Surbiton has worst air pollution in the UK.

Policy pathway to reduce air pollution by phasing out domestic burning by 2030

Wood burning in our homes is now the largest source of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) air pollution in the UK, with significant impacts both on people’s health and the environment.

Read our newly-launched evidence-based policy pathway for government🔽

www.actionforcleanair.org.uk/evidence-res...

This is your brain on air pollution Air pollution knows no borders -- even in your own body, says public health expert María Neira. In this startling talk, she describes how the microscopic particles and chemicals you breathe affect all...

This is your brain on air pollution

#AirPollution #Health

www.ted.com/talks/maria_...

A quote that says "wood smoke resembles environmental tobacco smoke, for which numerous studies have shown deleterious effects on the respiratory health of children." Koenig, et al. Pulmonary function changes in children associated with fine particulate matter

It’s been known for a long time that wood smoke is similar to cigarette smoke and that it harms children. The study this quote is taken from, for instance, was published in 1993. (It found that fine particle pollution from wood burning makes breathing more difficult for young asthmatic children.)

Why is there no health warning on a wood stove?

Wood smoke contains most of the same carcinogens as tobacco smoke, including benzene and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.

Tobacco products have had health warning messages for years - it's time for stoves to have the same. #AirPollution #Health

Yep!

"The fundamental reason certification test procedures are not predictive of real-world emissions during in-home use is that there is a host of variables that make in-home usage quite different from the controlled test conditions in the laboratory."

web.archive.org/web/20170622...

www.gpsj.co.uk?p=9782

Has wood burning pollution really reduced in the UK? A comment from a wood burning stove installer on twitter.

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Replacing fossil fuels and biomass with cleaner alternatives in residential heating and cooking can decrease the social health costs, say researchers - EPHA New report by CE Delft investigating the health-related costs to society of outdoor air pollution caused by residential heating and cooking.

However, this lobby group has been effective in manipulating UK policy, where wood stoves are now permitted as 'secondary heating sources'.

I wrote about the Stove Industry Alliance and why people burn wood here: medium.com/the-new-clim...

Has wood burning pollution really reduced in the UK? A comment from a wood burning stove installer on twitter.

A comment from a wood burning stove installer on twitter.

“The emissions debate is nuanced, I don’t see or hear of the levels suggested in my area. Pm2.5 has dropped 88% in the UK since 1970."

Is that true?

Click to find out!

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#WoodBurningStoves

5 quick facts about Wood Smoke Pollution.
See more facts from Doctors and Scientists Against Woodsmoke Pollution here:
www.dsawsp.org/resources/wo...

Decision to permit wood burning stoves in new builds should be reversed - UK Health Alliance on Climate Change In a letter to the Minister for Housing and Planning, the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change has called for a reversal of a decision to allow wood burning stoves in new builds

Wood burning in the home harms health.
Our letter to the housing minister.
Decision to permit wood burning stoves in new builds should be reversed – UK Health Alliance on Climate Change
#AirPollution
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Alliance of UK health groups call for stove ban in new homes The UK Health Alliance on Climate Change (UKHACC) have responded to the recent revelation that wood stoves will not be banned under the Future Homes Standard, writing to Matthew Pennycook MP, the…

"Wood burners are not a cost-effective, healthy or sustainable alternative to other forms of heating, notably heat pumps, & should not play a critical role in the heat security of our future homes."

Well said @ukhealthclimate.bsky.social @richardswsmith.bsky.social @jillbelch.bsky.social

Asthma + Lung UK Cymru call for action on solid fuel burning Asthma + Lung UK Cymru are calling  on the Welsh Government to address the issue of domestic wood burning in the country, after finding that many people are not aware that it poses a health risk. The ...

Asthma+ Lung UK Cymru call for action on solid fuel burning

#AirPollution #WoodBurning #Health #Asthma
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A wood burning stove that has been converted into a terrarium.

Does it get cooler than this?! A wood burner that's been converted into a terrarium 😍 . (Credit: Hans Wurst via X).

Reply here with a pic if you've converted your fireplace or stove into a non-burning beauty like this. There are alternatives! #FireplaceFlip #WoodBurning #AirPollution

Wood smoke pollution references A bibliography of research studies, reports, articles and other reference sources relating to wood smoke pollution, organized by content order on our website.

#Airpollution #Woodmoke
contains known #carcinogenic compounds (type 1 carcinogens) www.dsawsp.org/resources/wo...

Alarm as safety chiefs green light 'cancer-causing' home appliance The devices, which have become a popular fixture in middle class homes, are said to be one of the main drivers of harmful air pollutants in UK cities.

Senior medics today sounded the alarm over 'short-sighted' and 'harmful' Government plans to allow wood-burning stoves in new homes in England.

A warning from the @rcpch.bsky.social

Piece by Emily Stern.

www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic...

This Labour government is not fit for purpose.

If there is “no practical way to allow the installation of fossil fuel boilers while also delivering significant carbon savings and ‘zero-carbon ready’ homes”
then there should be no practical way to allow wood burning which emits MORE CO₂ than gas.

I can't open my windows - the air could land me in hospital I've been blue-lighted to hospital 20 times in 4 years.

“On that day, my asthma was triggered by some of the narrowboats having wood burning stoves. The smell, or more specifically the air pollution that the stoves created, caused an asthma attack so severe that I was in hospital for two weeks.”

#WoodSmokePollution #Asthma

So many people have no idea how severely wood smoke affects some people.

It was all looking promising until I got to the part where a wood fired hot tub was mentioned. I'm sorry but I won't be staying there due to the fact that toxic wood smoke will inevitably be wafting around this site.

Policy pathway to reduce air pollution by phasing out domestic burning by 2030 Wood burning in our homes is a key cause of air pollution and has significant impacts both on people’s health and the environment. We outline five critical problems which currently act as barriers to ...

Thanks to all the new followers of this account.

@globalactionplan.bsky.social have published a policy pathway to phase out domestic wood burning by 2030.

Should the @greenparty.org.uk adopt these policies?
Feedback welcome.

www.actionforcleanair.org.uk/evidence-res...