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What makes Delhi’s air thick isn’t what makes it toxic: Study finds farm fires choke lungs, vehicles poison blood | Delhi News - The Times of India A new study reveals open fires account for over 50% of Delhi's particulate matter pollution, causing visible smog. However, transport and industry are

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The message from the studies is clear -- Delhi’s air-quality strategy must differentiate between visible pollution and chemical toxicity.

PhD Position in Atmospheric Chemistry

We have a new PhD project to study ozone formation from fires. If interested in atmospheric chemistry, fires, living in Zurich, and studying at ETH, consider applying here: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...

Up to $40 million in federal funding fuels research to revolutionize clean indoor air With the contract from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, an interdisciplinary research team led by Virginia Tech and Linsey Marr will create a “smoke alarm” for airborne contaminants t...

Could a “smoke alarm” for airborne contaminants monitor and improve the quality of the air indoors? (Where Americans spend 90 percent of their time!)

An interdisciplinary research team led by @linseymarr.bsky.social will create such a system that could cut respiratory illnesses by 25 percent. 👏

Global action for #cleanair!
G20 ministers adopt the Cape Town Ministerial Declaration on Air Quality, protecting vulnerable populations, sharing best practices, and expanding access to reliable data.
Read the full declaration here: bit.ly/42X2eGO

Huge congratulations to the six Best Poster Prize winners of the #ECRConference2025! 🥳

Hannah Kessenich
Vasu Singh
Biplob Dey
Mishka Rawatlal
Stephanie Elkins
Pablo Lichtig

Your research was outstanding. See you at the iCACGP-IGAC 2026 Science Conference!

#ECR #AtmosphericScience #PhD #SciComm

Penguin poop might help cool Antarctica. A study in @commsearth.nature.com suggests ammonia from Adelie penguin guano boosts cloud formation, which could reduce surface temperatures and slow sea ice loss: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

#AnimalBehaviour #ClimateSky 🧪

Scientists Studied The Infamous "Chicago Rat Hole" And They Have Some Bad News The "Chicago rat hole" became so famous it is now housed in the City Hall-County Building. Scientists studying it found a few surprises, and some grim news.

Just glad Splatatouille's family can finally have some closure x

Climate change is messing with global wind speeds, impacting planetary health Climate change is disturbing wind patterns across the globe in dramatic ways. And when combined with land-use change and desertification, these changes are spawning immense sand and dust storms that p...

Worsening sand/dust storms, wildfires intensified by record-setting winds, & increasingly severe hurricanes, derechos, short-lived convective storms & other extreme weather events are impacting people’s lives, health & property around the world.

news.mongabay.com/2025/10/clim... via @mongabay.com

Applications are open!
Join the African School on #AirQuality & Pollution Prevention, 23 Nov–3 Dec 2025 at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology 🇬🇭

Gain skills in:
💡Advanced monitoring methods
📊 Evidence-based policy design
🌍 Pollution prevention

Deadline: Oct 19
🔗 bit.ly/AQSchool2025

Six journal rejections and a major rethink: why I’m happy to admit to my research failures, and you should too Outlining the trial-and-error processes that are involved in every research project could help others to become more efficient and paint a more honest picture of life as a researcher.

Embracing failure as a necessary part of success is long overdue in science and in life in general.

An economist, Severine Toussaert, shares why she is happy to admit to her research failures, and why others should too

🧪 #AcademicSky

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

​🔊 Meet our speakers!

​Get a sneak peek of the ECR Online Conference! We've put together a video montage of 5 of our incredible invited ECR speakers introducing their research.

​Hear directly from the experts you'll see on Sep 25th. Watch the video and then register to join the conversation!

The words will resonate for many scientists working in the global south/ less privileged insts...tokenism runs high...but to expect science which is also a human driven enterprise to be any different from other sectors is utopian perhaps..hope Science remains better off than other domains...

End GDP mania: how the world should really measure prosperity The obsession with economic output as a measure of human development puts sustainability on the back burner. Researchers can now help to devise better indicators.

The obsession with economic output as a measure of human development puts sustainability on the back burner

Time to end the GDP mania

Our editorial inspired by a @nature.com paper that looks at how the world should really measure prosperity
🧪 #SGDs #doughnuteconomics
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

744 people registered!
20 hours of continuous events!
We look forward to seeing you there!

Join us on Friday to hear from a stellar panel on opportunities for improving #AirQuality through transportation interventions.

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You will find us at IGAC early Career Workshop in the Americas time slot on 25th of September!!

@igac-ecr.bsky.social

The hidden effects of academic excellence: workaholism in Academia Years have passed since I started my academic career, and I have come to realise that, in a cademia, excellence appears to come with a price tag . Stress and pressure have become commonplace for acade...

In academia, excellence appears to come with a price tag. Stresses often normalise certain behaviours such as workaholism. In this week's blog, Katherine Villavicencio writes about the effects of workaholism in academic life, and suggests us: forget the price tag! blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gd...

Today is #WorldOzoneDay

WMO ensures there is high-quality data for policy-makers, fostering the exchange of knowledge between countries, and producing Ozone and UV Bulletins to track the state of the Ozone Layer.

🔗More here: https://bit.ly/42wmM8C

The race is on for everyone, everywhere to breathe clean air.

On #CleanAirDay my message is simple: the race against air pollution can - and must - be won.

Get it right and we can stop over 8 million premature deaths each year.

Be part of the solution to #BeatPollution: www.cleanairblueskies.org

This week, the WMO and the National Center of Meteorology (NCM) of the United Arab Emirates are convening a global workshop on AI in weather prediction and environmental services.

🔍 Learn more: https://bit.ly/46bDX0i

📺 Watch live starting 9 September: https://bit.ly/46cgkov

Are you interested in perspectives for the transition from ECS to Assistant Professor career stage and on tips to apply for faculty positions? Thank you @igac-ecr.bsky.social @igacproject.bsky.social @dessemax.bsky.social
for organizing the skill workshop!
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Air pollution can drive devastating forms of dementia, research suggests Airborne particles cause toxic clumps of proteins in brain that are hallmarks of Lewy body dementia, study indicates

Another reason to stop setting all forms of carbon on fire, including fossil fuels and trees.

Text says ‘Clean air can prevent 8.1 million deaths. The race is on. In the background, a person is running near hills.

Sep 7 is the International Day of Clean Air for blue skies! This year’s theme is Racing for Air.

Why do we need fast and meaningful action?

📍Millions of deaths and healthy years lost each year

📍Reduction in crop productivity

📍Loss of well being, income

#CleanAirDay 🧪

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Check out the USEPA's newest air cleaning allies activity book for children. DJ is definitely the coolest (and with additional filters in parallel - a more effective ally than Aerie).👇

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In EPA's Air Cleaning Allies activity book, Merv, Aerie, and DJ remind me of Rumi, Mira, and Zoey of K-Pop Demon Hunters. Particles in the air are the demons.

In Germany, scientists have made a breakthrough in treating Parkinson’s by implanting a chip in the brain that sends precise signals to restore movement. A stunning leap in neuroscience—witness the power of innovation and the beauty of science in action.
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Our key finding that the strongest PM and SO2 sources are located at the urban periphery and in the hinterland indicates that Indian clean air action plans need to shift their focus from urban noncompliance areas to a holistic air-shed approach.