You eat organic. You drink filtered water. But what are you breathing? Take the next step in your health with cleaner air in 2025.
Last summer, record-breaking heat waves swept the world, continuing a decades-long trend of rising temperatures driven by climate change. And it’s looking like this year may be even hotter. Learn how to stay safe when air quality gets bad.
Here at Molekule, we talk about air quality a lot. We research, think about and write about air quality a lot too. Sometimes you have to get back to basics and explore the fundamental problem of poor air quality. In order to understand what good air quality is, we need to know what makes air quality bad.
If you have been concerned about wildfires and the smoke they create lately, you are not alone. California and the western United States are experiencing an increasing number of smoky days each year and this year’s wildfires have even caused smoky pollution on the east coast — a disturbing trend that makes good air quality seem more and more like a luxury.
National Clean Air Month got its start in 1972 when the American Lung Association sponsored the first-ever Clean Air Week to raise awareness about how air quality impacts public health. Since then, the annual week-long event has stretched into a Clean Air Month, and the focus has broadened to include the relationship between air quality, climate change, and the environment.
Discover how home renovation projects can impact indoor air quality and learn practical solutions to maintain a healthy environment. Explore the Molekule Air Pro, a powerful air purifier, and hear from DIYer Brooke Sickmiller on TikTok about the importance of clean air during renovations.
Wildfire smoke is composed of tiny particles and chemicals. As they travel through the air from the site of the fire to you, they often pick up other pollutants and energies from the sun that make them even less healthy than their original forms.
The most massive contiguous structure known to all of human history may very well be the American highway system. If its 41,000 miles were made into a parking lot it would be a cube more than 20 miles on a side and could hold 50 million vehicles. Understandably it’s a great way to get around.
Wildfire is a serious concern for most of us, not just the danger of the fire itself but also the smoke that can travel for hundreds or thousands of miles. The smoke from burning wood can be more toxic than those from car exhaust. Those of us that don’t have good ways of keeping the smoke out of our homes or who need to spend a few hours outside each day need to know how bad the smoke is or is going to be in order to be properly prepared.
Particle pollution is a broad term that describes a complex mixture of solid particles and liquid droplets suspended in the air. Also called particulate matter (PM), this class of pollutants includes inorganic compounds, organic chemicals, metals, dust and soil particles, mold spores, pollen, and other biological materials—basically, anything that’s small and light enough to float.