#AirPollution #WoodBurning #Health #Environment #CleanAirNight 22 January 2026 cleanairhub.org.uk

The Impact of Air Pollution and Obesity on Cognitive Decline and Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease | MDPI mdpi.com/1422-0067/27/1…

Department of Farming’s (aka Defra UK’s) holiday news includes its response to the Air Quality Expert Group’s (AQEG’s) report on Indoor Air gov.uk/government/pub…

10m Americans told to stay indoors as air fills with toxins linked to heart attacks | Daily Mail Online dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ar…

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🔥 Where there’s fire, there’s smoke 2021 report by European Environmental Bureau eeb.org/wp-content/upl… What the evidence actually says about domestic wood burning 1️⃣ Wood stoves are Europe’s biggest source of PM₂.₅ from heating Small domestic wood burning produces around half of all

With just four days left in the month, this December in #Delhi is already more polluted than last December in terms of PM2.5, possibly the worst since 2019 Kushagra Dixit Saurav Das Vimlendu Jha विमलेंदु झा Warrior Moms CitizensForCleanAirBharat Vishnu Som Chetan Bhattacharji

Check out the massive difference in PM2.5 #AirPollution levels from 11:50am until 6:25pm, now the wind has dropped and solid fuel burning homes have started burning. There is practically no safe level of PM2.5 exposure at which #health impacts have been observed to stop. We

This is extraordinary. The Royal College of Physicians 2025 air pollution report finds that toxic air costs the UK around £27 billion a year, rising to as much as £50 billion annually once wider health impacts such as dementia are included. At the same time, government funding

If the car industry were honest about the health impacts of combustion engines, it would face serious legal exposure. As of 2025, petrol is officially classed as cancer-causing by the WHO’s cancer agency, the International Agency for Research on Cancer. Diesel exhaust was

A message I received from a follower. “Hey, I've been following your channel with great enthusiasm and enjoyment, as a Brit resident in Norway owning 3 electric cars... Your comments are spot on, and the naysayers condemnation of electric cars not working in winter is frankly

Chorley_Air_Quality Dr. Manoj Kumar Kushagra Dixit Saurav Das Vimlendu Jha विमलेंदु झा Warrior Moms CitizensForCleanAirBharat Vishnu Som Jasjeev Gandhiok Priyangi Agarwal Sophiya Mathew Ipsita pati🌳 aksheev thakur jitendra Bhavreen Kandhari Milann Desai Manisha Pande Thanks for this. (Will go through this carefully, found it quite dense at first glance!) Similar study was done for large Indian cities a couple of years ago thelancet.com/journals/lanpl… And I spoke to one of the authors youtu.be/9lsBFP7DK9Q?si…

There is now clear evidence that domestic wood burning cannot be cleaned up enough to protect public health in towns and cities. For years the debate focused on PM2.5 mass. Toxicology shows that what matters most for health is not only how much particulate matter is present but

A landmark 2024 Danish study tested 922 diseases and found that long term exposure to PM2.5 and NO2 was linked with the onset of more than 700 of them. That is over 80% of all known disease categories. The strongest links were with COPD, type 2 diabetes and ischaemic heart

PM2.5 pollution, Tuesday 3 Feb 5pm For the third day PM2.5 #AirPollution has been high, where are the warnings to protect public health? Defra UK Wes Streeting BBC News (UK) ITV News Met Office #AirPollution #Health

Wood burners polluting rural homes more than traffic A citizen science project with schoolchildren on the Isle of Anglesey has revealed that for rural children, the greatest threat to air quality is not outside on the roads, but inside their own homes. airqualitynews.com/headlines/wood…

Secondhand vape smoke may damage lung tissue A study has found that lingering clouds from e-cigarettes can transform indoors, forming tiny particles filled with metals and highly reactive chemicals that may damage lung tissue when inhaled. airqualitynews.com/headlines/seco…

Well done. We all need to be aware that domestic wood burning has serious health consequences.

Dr Jill Belch The firepit is already forbidden in Utrecht and the city wants to phase out the wood stove in 2030. It's a first step. We want a national approach to this problem.

The government is considering #health warnings on new solid fuel stoves. That implicitly accepts there is a health risk. But if PM₂.₅ has no safe level, and domestic burning is a major source, then warning labels are not enough. A phased transition away from domestic solid