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Public health officials are warning of unhealthy air across parts of the Pacific Northwest as smoke from wildfires move across the region.

Public health officials are warning of unhealthy air across parts of the Pacific Northwest as smoke from wildfires move across the region.

Trees not only help slow the effects of climate change but also help clean and cool the air around them.

One the whole, France has never needed, and often looked down on, air conditioning.

Lane County’s air quality gets a dismal grade in the latest annual report by the American Lung Association. As KLCC’s Brian Bull reports, wildfires are to…

Record breaking temperatures aren’t the only thing people have to worry about this week. An early morning grass fire on Wednesday near Mt. Pisgah…

Some farmers in the state are turning to cleaning the soil in an effort to use less water — and to help clean air we breathe.

Investors dumped stock in United Air Lines after a mechanics union rejected a contract deal with the nation's second-largest air carrier. The mechanics are the only union group not to agree to givebacks to the struggling airline, which is trying to avoid bankruptcy protection. NPR's Brian Naylor reports. (3:30)

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with environmental journalist Beth Gardiner about the origins of the Clean Air Act, which she writes about in her book Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution.

The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality and Lane Regional Air Protection Agency extended an air quality advisory Wednesday for Baker, Deschutes, northern Klamath, northern Lake, eastern Lane, Union and Wallowa counties due to smoke from the Cedar Creek fire near Oakridge and the Double Creek fire near Imnaha.