@ucl.ac.uk Geography research by Dr Karn Vohra featured in The @thelancet.com Planetary Health shows US oil and gas air pollution causes major health and racial inequities.

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#UCLGeography #AirPollution #EnvironmentalJustice #TheLancet

Our work on #oilandgas #airpollution #healthburden #inequalities has been featured in the @thelancetplanet.bsky.social Research Digest. Inspired to continue contributing to the growing evidence base that can inform discussions and decisions at present and future #COP meetings.

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Huge congratulations to the six Best Poster Prize winners of the #ECRConference2025! 🥳

Hannah Kessenich
Vasu Singh
Biplob Dey
Mishka Rawatlal
Stephanie Elkins
Pablo Lichtig

Your research was outstanding. See you at the iCACGP-IGAC 2026 Science Conference!

#ECR #AtmosphericScience #PhD #SciComm

Online lectures for the 7th @eumetsat.int @esa.int @ecmwf.int @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social Joint Training on Atmospheric Composition start tomorrow (1 Oct, CEST):

10:00 Samuel Remy on atmospheric aerosols
14:00 Sophie Vandenbussche on observing dust from space

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The health burden and racial-ethnic disparities of air pollution from the major oil and gas lifecycle stages in the United States Largest total population health burden is from O&G end-use, but greatest relative disparities are linked to downstream activities.

Besides the imperative to phase out oil and gas, our work also shows the importance of data integrity and transparency, and regulations on air pollution and environmental justice to protect the public.

📄 Read our open-access paper at: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Historic redlining and the siting of oil and gas wells in the United States - Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology - Historic redlining and the siting of oil and gas wells in the United States

...Much of this disparity stems from a legacy of #redlining zoning practices that relegated certain populations to live near pollution hotspots. Permitting of oil refineries and petrochemical facilities is another factor.

See, e.g., this 2023 paper by González et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

91,000 Premature Deaths Each Year Linked to US Air Pollution Air pollution from oil and gas production and use in the U.S. has an enormous health toll. A new study tallies the cost.

#4 Black, Asian, Native American, Hispanic groups are consistently the most affected by O&G air pollution and adverse health outcomes. Relative inequities are most extreme from downstream activities, especially for the Black population living in #CancerAlley LA & eastern TX. time.com/7311655/us-o...

#3 The greatest health burden from all O&G stages are found in the most populated states (CA, TX, NY, PA, NJ). End-use activities dominate all incidences, except for cancer risk in specific states with large O&G extraction basins, such as CO, TX, and ND.

#2 Around 1-in-5 preterm births and adult deaths linked to fine particulate pollution, and nearly 90% of new childhood asthma cases tied to nitrogen dioxide pollution, are from the O&G sector.

Air pollution from oil and gas causes 90,000 premature US deaths each year, says new study Study analyzed health impacts of fossil fuels from exploration to end use, and found communities of color bear brunt of harm

Our key findings include:
#1 Annual outdoor air pollution from the oil and gas (O&G) sector leads to 91,000 premature deaths, 10,350 pre-term births, and 216,000 new cases of childhood asthma per year, and 1,610 lifetime cancers across the US.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

🚨 OUT NOW! Our new @science.org study led by @kohrathefog.bsky.social is the first to comprehensively quantify the health impacts of and inequities in outdoor air pollution exposure across all stages of the US oil and gas lifecycle: extraction ➡️ transport/storage ➡️ refining/processing ➡️ end-use. 🧵

Figure from scientific paper, which is a grid of 3x6 maps of the lower 48 states. Each row maps an individual pollutant for the Up/Midstream (L), Downstream (center), and End-Use (R) of oil & gas lifecycle. End-Use impacts are biggest and are concentrated in urban areas, especially ease and west coasts. Up/Midstream impacts are concentrated in oil producing regions in the mid-continent mostly. Downstream impacts are concentrated on the Gulf Coast of TX and LA.

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Air pollution from oil and gas causes 90,000 premature US deaths each year, says new study Study analyzed health impacts of fossil fuels from exploration to end use, and found communities of color bear brunt of harm

Terrific new paper from @kohrathefog.bsky.social @ploya.bsky.social et al.

Full oil & gas lifecycle air pollution impacts lead to:
-- 90k premature deaths
-- 10k pre-term births
-- 200k+ childhood asthma incidences
-- etc

Reporting via @dharna.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Where There’s Fire, There’s Smoke https://seas.harvard.edu/news/2025/07/driving-data-fire-managementNew app estimates health impacts of breathing smoke from wildfires

SMRT-Flames Tool: smoke-policy-tool.projects.earthengine.app/view/smrt-fl...
Harvard press release: seas.harvard.edu/news/2025/06...
Harvard feature on Karina: seas.harvard.edu/news/2025/07...

Happy to announce that Karina Chung's paper on wildfires, smoke risk, and land management in the western US is now published in ES&T! Karina started working on the project with us as a freshman at Harvard!

Paper: doi.org/10.1021/acs....
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Where There’s Fire, There’s Smoke New app estimates health impacts of breathing smoke from wildfires

New @harvard.edu research, along w/ Dr. @tinaliu.bsky.social, launches an online platform to help identify areas in need of controlled burns or other #wildfire management strategies, to increase safety and reduce smoke exposure. 🔥

More: seas.harvard.edu/news/2025/06...

@soa-mazing.bsky.social

Convener Omar starting out session at #EGU2025 on Atmosphere Science for Action: Air Quality, Climate, Health and Equity

Frontiers | Moving from monitoring to real-time interventions for air quality: are low-cost sensor networks ready to support urban digital twins?

🏙️💨 🛜 Are low-cost sensor networks ready to support urban digital twins?

Our research shows how IoT low-cost sensors are transforming air quality monitoring but without better data management their full potential can’t be realised. 🌍📊

#AirQuality #DigitalTwins

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🌍 Calling all researchers! Submit your abstract to the #EGU25 session: AS4.10 - Atmospheric Science for Action: Linking Air Quality, Climate, Health, Equity, & Policy 🌟

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(1/3)

📢 Less than a week left to submit abstracts for #EGU25.

Our session brings together researchers involved in different themes of #airquality, #climate, #health, #EJ and #policy. Inviting you to submit an abstract if your research focuses on a few of these themes and not necessarily all of them.

We welcome abstracts that use remote-sensing, modelling, ground-based observation, ML approaches, & policy analysis techniques to investigate efficacy of policies in ameliorating poor AQ, climate change, health impacts, and inequity.

Details: bit.ly/EGU_AS4_10, Deadline 𝟭𝟱 𝗝𝗮𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝟭𝟯:𝟬𝟬 𝗖𝗘𝗧 (3/3)

If you are a researcher focusing on how climate change and air pollution impact human health and/or exploring how atmospheric sciences can support policies towards environmental equity, then we invite you to submit an abstract to 𝗦𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗦𝟰.𝟭𝟬. (2/3)

📢 Call for Abstracts for @eurogeosciences.bsky.social 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 in 𝗩𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗻𝗮, 𝗔𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗮, 𝟮𝟳 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 𝘁𝗼 𝟮 𝗠𝗮𝘆, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱

Pleased to share a new addition to the #EGU25 #AtmosphericSciences sessions linking #Climate #AirQuality #PublicHealth #Equity and #Policy. (1/3)