Dear Doctors: We live in the fire zone in Altadena, California. After the evacuations ended, we came home, and now my throat is constantly sore. There’s no smoke smell, but my husband says the air can ...

A streamlined workflow using Six Sigma's DMAIC methodology was developed to identify and mitigate visible particles in biologics, reducing time and resources while maintaining quality. Visual ...

The regulatory compliance standards for modern pharmaceutical products are among the harshest in the world, demanding cutting-edge quality assurance and quality control procedures to ensure that ...

Particulates make us ill, and particulates affect the climate. The direct combustion of wood and other fuels is only partially responsible for producing fine particulates – the rest evolve from a ...

To expose and extract coal seams buried deep under mountains, miners blast through rock with explosives in a method called mountaintop removal mining. In Appalachia where such mining is widespread, ...

Not all airborne dust particles are the same. Here are ways you can differentiate between particulate exposures and hazards for your workplace. Airborne dusts are common to many workplaces, many of ...

People have been choking on manmade air pollution for roughly half a million years, ever since Pleistocene cavemen huddled around the first campfires. That was clearly worth a few lungfuls of soot — ...

If we're not going to stop climate change by reducing emissions, then we're going to have to engineer some outlandish way to save civilization—that's the basic logic behind geoengineering, which ...

When I worked for the Environmental Protection Agency in the 2010s as an Obama administration appointee, I helped write and review dozens of regulations under the Clean Air Act. They included some ...

The unprecedented levels of fine particulates that pollute Beijing’s air can cause lung cancer, heart attacks and other health problems. Image via Flickr user jaaron Beijing’s terrible air quality is ...