New York City’s air quality index of 183 remained the worst of any major world city Thursday morning, but the conditions were far better than Wednesday’s record-setting air pollution in the ...

Canadian wildfires have created dangerous air quality conditions in New York City. The state’s Department of Health recommends that “individuals consider limiting strenuous outdoor physical ...

The cough-inducing, yellow-orange haze that has smothered New York City and created hazardous air-quality conditions is caused by smoke that’s been blown southward from hundreds of Canadian ...

New York City's air quality was the worst since as least the 1980s Wednesday afternoon, as thick wildfire smoke blowing down from Canada dimmed the city into an orange haze.

Mayor Eric Adams said in a news release late Tuesday that by 10 p.m. air quality in parts of New York City had become “very unhealthy,” rising to 218 on the Environmental Protection Agency’s ...

As of 2:44 pm ET, the IQ Air website measured New York's Air Quality Index at 342, far above the threshold of 301 denoting "hazardous" air quality. The large city with the next-worst air in the ...

New York City reached an Air Quality Index, or AQI, of 304 in the early afternoon Wednesday — “far surpassing the AQI of Delhi, India, which had a maximum AQI of 199 in the (previous) 24 hours ...

First Alert Weather: Temperatures swing this weekend - 1/24/25 04:33. NEW YORK -- If you think something seems off with the air quality today in New York City, you're not wrong.But what's causing ...

How to keep yourself safe & healthy during an air quality alert 02:21. NEW YORK-- Breathing the air in New York City as the region continues to be affected by smoke from wildfires in Canada may be ...

Aside from New York, the cities of Detroit and Toronto have also seen their air quality levels plummet. Earlier this week, Canadian officials said 26,000 people across the country had been ...

New York City has ranked as either the top or second most polluted city in the world Thursday, and Detroit is back in the top 5 for the dubious honor. New York and much of the U.S. Northeast, in a ...