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#air-quality

As wildfire smoke blankets large swaths of the eastern United States, many people are experiencing physical symptoms, like prickling, stinging eyes; a scratchy throat; a runny nose; and some coughing.For those without underlying conditions, this will largely be a passing source of irritation.You'll be miserable a little bit, but you'll be able to brush it off, said Dr. Panagis Galiatsatos, a pulmonary and critical care medicine physician at Johns Hopkins Medicine.

Mayor Eric Adams said in a news release late Tuesday that by 10 p.m. air quality in parts of New York City had become very unhealthy, rising to 218 on the Environmental Protection Agency's Air Quality Index.New York's air quality rating briefly ranked as the worst of any city in the world on Tuesday, according to the IQAir World Air Quality Index.

A ban on wood- burning stoves should be considered in London as they are having a big impact on air pollution, health experts have said.Professor Frank Kelly, professor of community health and policy at Imperial College London, called on policymakers to be more inventive and progressive in their approach to wood burners and said it is something which could be legislated against to protect the health of Londoners.

A total of 224,633,003 was raised by the Ulez in 2022, according to figures obtained by the BBC.Roughly a third of the money came from penalty charge notices (PCNs), with the rest from daily charge payments.Transport for London (TfL) has said the money is being used to cover "set-up costs" for the Ulez expansion and "running and improving" the rest of London's transport network.

G reenwich Council has revealed plans to ban ice cream vans from more than 30 roads across the borough after council officials complained that traders were causing a nuisance.The plans unveiled by the Royal Borough of Greenwich would prohibit ice cream vans from trading in specific locations.More than 20 roads on the list are in Woolwich town centre, while 13 are in the Greenwich area.

As wildfire smoke from Canada continued to drift across the United States, creating unhealthy air quality, many places across the country were under air quality alerts on Thursday.Heeding those alerts is important to staying safe, but monitoring air quality levels can also help you decide when it is safe to go outside.

Owners of the most polluting cars may soon have to pay more to park as councils across England are expected to roll out new charges based on a vehicle's CO2 emissions.Lambeth is the latest council in London to introduce emissions-based parking fees, with similar charges now expected elsewhere in England.

A week after a thick plume of smoke choked the air in New York City, delaying flights, closing schools and sending people to hospitals with respiratory issues, another round of eastward winds is pushing Canadian wildfire smoke toward the East Coast.Smoke from the hundreds of wildfires burning across Canada is expected to return to the New York area starting late Thursday, according to the National Weather Service office in Upton, N.Y.

As a gray cloud and a pungent smell moved through the Twin Cities on Wednesday, normally bustling bike lanes and running trails were largely deserted.Several commuters wore high-quality masks as they made their way home.The air quality reached unhealthy levels in Minneapolis, St. Paul and much of Minnesota on Wednesday, as the Upper Midwest became the latest pocket of the country to have its air fouled by smoke drifting south from wildfires that have been burning across Canada for weeks.

Smoky air is filled with microscopic flakes of particulate matter that can get into the lungs and even into the blood stream.Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images While a thick yellow haze has blanketed much of the Eastern U.S. this week, some of the poorest air quality in the world has been in New York City.

A version of this story originally ran on Feb. 5, 2021 This week, millions of Americans are anxiously scanning air quality maps focusing on two colors: red and purple.Red indicates "unhealthy" air quality, and purple?"Very unhealthy."When did purple become the color most associated with danger?

The stench of sewage remained in a children's cancer ward even after its multimillion-pound makeover, an inquiry has heard.Emma Somerville, a senior charge nurse at the Schiehallion unit's ward 2a at Glasgow's Royal Hospital for Children, was giving evidence to the Scottish Hospitals Inquiry on Wednesday, which is looking into a series of contamination issues at what was billed as a state-of-the-art facility.

Car-obsessed actor Rowan Atkinson has said he feels duped by the electric vehicle trend, despite being an early adopter.In a comment piece in The Guardian on Saturday, the 68-year-old wrote that he got his electric hybrid 18 years ago and his first all-electric car nine years later.Electric vehicles may be a bit soulless, but they're wonderful mechanisms: fast, quiet and, until recently, very cheap to run, he wrote.

Welcome to the SSS Summary - a little review of what happened this past week in Chicago White Sox baseball, including on-the-field play, the front office jibber-jabber, and everything in between.Even if you don't want to remember what happened, sorry, we will tell you anyway.This time last week, the South Siders were 5 1⁄2 games behind the first-place Minnesota Twins.

MLB is continuing to monitor air quality conditions for several games scheduled to take place in the Northeast U.S. amid ongoing wildfires in Canada.The league has not yet postponed or canceled any games scheduled to take place on Wednesday, even as local agencies in affected areas have advised people to limit their outdoor activities and the NWSL postponed a scheduled game in the New York area.

Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement for Toronto Tuesday, alerting that smoke from raging forest fires in Quebec could cause high levels of air pollution today and throughout the week.Smoke plumes from the fires "may result in deteriorated air quality through most of this week," said the agency in its statement early Tuesday morning.

NEW YORK (AP) - Eloy Jiménez hit a go-ahead homer in the seventh inning off Michael King, and the Chicago White Sox beat the New York Yankees 6-5 in the opener of a doubleheader Thursday to extend their winning streak to a season-high five games.After Wednesday's game was postponed by Major League Baseball because of hazardous air quality from Canadian wildfires, conditions in the Bronx had improved by first pitch Thursday.

NEW YORK (AP) - Eloy Jiménez hit a go-ahead homer in the seventh inning off Michael King, and the Chicago White Sox beat the New York Yankees 6-5 in the opener of a doubleheader Thursday to extend their winning streak to a season-high five games.After Wednesday's game was postponed by Major League Baseball because of hazardous air quality from Canadian wildfires, conditions in the Bronx had improved by first pitch Thursday.

NEW YORK (AP) - Eloy Jiménez hit a go-ahead homer in the seventh inning off Michael King, and the Chicago White Sox beat the New York Yankees 6-5 in the opener of a doubleheader Thursday to extend their winning streak to a season-high five games.After Wednesday's game was postponed by Major League Baseball because of hazardous air quality from Canadian wildfires, conditions in the Bronx had improved by first pitch Thursday.

The Nationals were scheduled to face the Arizona Diamondbacks on Thursday afternoon in Washington.(Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/for The Washington Post) Comment Gift Article Major League Baseball has postponed Thursday's Nationals-Diamondbacks game as wildfire smoke continues to blanket the East Coast.Thursday's game will be rescheduled for June 22, MLB said in a statement.

It looked like 2020 on the streets of New York City this week, as many residents unearthed their pandemic masks to protect against air that smelled, tasted, and looked smoky due to raging wildfires in Canada.Masking during periods of poor air quality is not a new concept, even in the U.Sbut it used to be a novelty when it happened.

For the second day in a row, the eastern U.S. was enveloped in a hazy beige smog that blocked the skies and sun of early summer.Countless tiny particles from the raging Canadian wildfiresmeasuring 2.5 microns or less in width (30 times the diameter of a human hair)are polluting the air.In New York City, levels of these particulates have soared to nearly 60 times the recommended guideline established by the World Health Organization, according to data collected by IQAir.

The worst of the wildfire smoke is likely over for millions of people across the Northeast, after two days of orange-tinted skies and the smell of burning forests filling the air.But smoke could remain dense in other parts of the region through at least Friday, according to a New York Times analysis of atmospheric computer models.

Good morning.It's Friday.We'll go on a walk something you probably shouldn't do today, but reading about it might take your mind off the smoke from the Canadian wildfires.We'll also find out when the air quality in New York will improve.Image Credit...Karsten Moran for The New York Times Thomas Oliemans is a newcomer who navigates New York like a native.

As smoke from Canadian wildfires blanketed New York City and seeped into theaters, alarming both ticket holders and performers, the Broadway production of Hamilton and a Free Shakespeare in the Park production of Hamlet both canceled performances.Hamilton announced at 6:45 p.m. that it was canceling its 8 p.m. performance Wednesday night because so many cast members had called in sick.

NEW YORK - The city is under an "Air Quality Alert'' until midnight, but current conditions at Yankee Stadium seem satisfactory enough Thursday to play a doubleheader.As a makeup for Wednesday's postponement of the New York Yankees-Chicago White Sox game, the two teams are scheduled for a single-admission doubleheader starting at 4:05 p.m.

NEW YORK - Arriving at Yankee Stadium on Wednesday, Yankees manager Aaron Boone went through business as usual.He didn't think too much about the smoke wafting over New York City, smog from Canadian wildfires that created an ominous and "unhealthy" environment on Tuesday night in the Bronx.

CHICAGO - The Chicago White Sox's hope of extending their current winning streak will be put on hold for at least a day after Major League Baseball canceled their game on Wednesday in New York against the Yankees due to poor air conditions.Major League Baseball announced the decision Wednesday afternoon due to air quality concerns at Yankee Stadium, where the Sox beat the Yankees 3-2 on Tuesday under a smoky haze.

The zoo is closed Thursday, and the Nationals game has been postponed.Smoke from Canadian wildfires has billowed into Washington, shutting down events across the region Thursday as experts warn against spending time outdoors.Here are the closures and event cancellations that have happened so far-we'll keep this post updated throughout the day:
The DC baseball team postponed its game against the Arizona Diamondbacks today, and rescheduled the matchup for June 22 at 1:05 PM.

Recess was canceled, the Apple Weather Map is showing red, and the National Park Service suggested people heading to the National Mall go inside a Smithsonian museum instead of hanging outside .DC's air quality is in a "code red" due to smoke drifting south from the wildfires currently raging in Canada.

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The thick smoke from Canadian wildfires that has enveloped the northeast claimed another, although temporary, victim on Thursday as Belmont Park canceled all training and racing for the day.It was supposed to be the first of the three-day Belmont Stakes Racing Festival.

The smoke from wildfires in Canada that has blanketed large parts of North America this week and created hazardous breathing conditions was expected to shift over Norway on Thursday but not cause trouble for people there, environmental officials said.Scientists at the Climate and Environmental Research Institute in Norway used forecast models to predict how the smoke from the hundreds of wildfires burning across Canada would move through the atmosphere.

Canadian wildfires have resulted in poor air quality across much of the United States, particularly in the Northeast, and multiple NFL teams are seeing their practice schedules affected.Giants coach Brian Daboll decided to cancel today's practice altogether.The Giants had initially planned to move practice indoors, but the air quality in the New York area is so bad that the team decided that even inside, it wasn't a good idea to have the players breathing heavily and getting harmful particles in their lungs.

Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders: Postponed due to air quality for second game in a row vs. Norfolk Tides
Double-A Somerset Patriots: L, 4-5 vs. Hartford Yard Goats
SS Trey Sweeney 1-5, RBILF Jasson Domínguez 0-3, 2 BB, 2 KDH Austin Wells 1-4, 2B, BB, 2 RBI, 2 K3B Tyler Hardman 1-4, BB, 2 K1B T.J. Rumfield 0-4, BB, GIDP2B Caleb Durbin 2-4, SBRF Brandon Lockridge 0-4, 2 K, GIDP, fielding errorCF Jeisson Rosario 2-4, HR, RBI, 2 K - seventh homer despite a .641

On the day Aaron Judge hit the IL, the Yankee lineup looked the way it often does with its superstar; pretty feckless.The Yankees were no-hit into the seventh by the White Sox, and while they made it close at the end, they ended up dropping the series opener to a fourth-place Chicago team.It's likely to be Randy Vásquez on the mound today trying to get the team back in the win column; there are currently no plans to postpone tonight despite air quality remaining iffy.

The goal of All aTwitter is to give readers a handy spot to check the Washington Commanders beat writers & bloggers, national sports journalists, and football fans in order to keep up on the latest news and opinions about Washington, the NFL, and sports in general, along with a smattering of other things.

Day 2 of the Washington Commanders mini-camp kicks off with Ron Rivera answering questions before the start of practice.He said Chase Young looked good in his first practice with the team this offseason.Rivera noticed more explosion and confidence, and noted the same from Logan Thomas who also suffered a torn ACL.

Patrick Corbin allowed three runs over six innings in the Nationals' 6-2 loss on Wednesday night.(Rob Carr/Getty Images)Patrick Corbin walked off the mound after completing the sixth inning and glanced at the scoreboard.He took a deep breath and exhaled before giving catcher Riley Adams a fist bump.

Eastern Canada is experiencing one of the worst starts of wildfire season in recorded history, which calls into question whether Major League Baseball teams should put their players, staff and fans at risk.The smoke from the wildfires was seen first-hand at Yankee Stadium during Tuesday night's New York Yankees-Chicago White Sox matchup.

E aling has the highest number of people receiving care for asthma in outer London, according to new research.A study from charity Asthma + Lung UK, has found that Southall alone has nearly a quarter (23%) of the top 30 GP practices in London where asthma treatment is most prevalent.The data reveals 24 out of the 30 GP surgeries with the highest rates of asthma prevalence are in outer London, with 70% of these surgeries within just one mile of some of the busiest roads in the capital, including the A40, A127, and A41.

Yes, it's Global Running Day.No, you probably shouldn't go for a run today.The New York Road Runners canceled all its Global Running Day-related events on Wednesday as smoke from wildfires in Canada drifted over large parts of the United States.If you're in NYC or any affected area, please read and follow your city's health advisory regarding air quality for June 7, and consider running another day.