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Air Pollution Is Costing Students More Than Marks
In 2023, a team of economists went looking for the effects of air pollution in an unusual place: professional chess tournaments. They linked readings from air quality monitors inside the tournament halls to more than 30,000 moves across three tournaments, with every move graded by a chess engine (in…

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The Agriculture-Air Quality Feedback Loop
That air pollution affects crops might not be as surprising, but what if agriculture also releases pollutants into the air we breathe? And those in turn negatively affect our health, crops and soil, triggering further fertilizer use — creating a reinforcing positive feedback loop. This blog post wil…

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The Atmosphere Just Hit 429 ppm. Why Do Our CO₂ Sensors Still Calibrate to 400?
Every few months, somebody asks on our forum or writes to our support team with the same question: when are we going to stop calibrating our CO₂ sensors to a baseline of 400 parts per million (ppm)? On the surface, it's a fair question, and we've now been getting it for years. The global average car…

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How We Implemented the TVOC Index to the Open Air Max
Total Volatile Organic Compounds (TVOCs) refers to a broad group of chemicals that easily evaporate into the air at room temperature. This category includes many highly volatile substances that can impact human health, triggering symptoms like headaches and respiratory irritation or even increasing …

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Building Bridges Between Culture and Clean Air
When people think of air quality, cultural practices often aren’t among the first things that come to mind. As new interns at AirGradient, we decided to explore this often overlooked connection within our local environments. Culture shapes how people cook, celebrate, mourn, heal, and gather, and the…

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