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Cleaner air in United States and Europe is brewing more Atlantic hurricanes, a new U. S. government study found. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration study links changes in regionalized air pollution across the globe to storm activity going both...

Burned down trees from last years' catastrophic fire season could affect water supply. About 70% of the region's water comes from snowmelt trickling down from the Sierra Nevada mountains, and that snow is expected to melt weeks earlier than normal...

Haze has been visible across parts of northern Nevada for several days. Washoe County's Air Quality Management District said a mix of smoke from fires in Russia and China plus a mix of dust from the Gobi Desert can be...

GENEVA (AP) — The U. N. health agency says nearly everybody in the world breathes air that doesn't meet its standards for air quality, calling for more action to reduce fossil-fuel use, which generates pollutants that cause respiratory and blood-flow...

Gas stoves are contributing more to global warming than previously thought because of constant tiny methane leaks while they're off, a new study found. The same study that tested emissions around stoves in homes raised new concerns about indoor air...

The Washoe County Health District (WCHD) Air Quality Management Division (AQMD) has reinstated burn code notifications heading into the winter month. The codes let residents know if the use of wood-burning fireplaces and stoves is allowed, discouraged or prohibited. The...