The end of 2025: Happy Holidays from Local Haze!
As 2025 comes to a close, we’re grateful for the growing community of citizen scientists and air quality enthusiasts who’ve made this year remarkable.
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Toronto Residents Take Air Quality Monitoring Into Their Own Hands
Community-driven solutions emerge as wildfire smoke becomes the new urban reality The Local Haze team has been busy driving local public awareness of urban air quality through strategic community engagement. In the recent article titled “Low-cost air quality monitors can minimize growing wildfire smoke impacts” in Toronto’s the bridge newspaper, a critical climate reality is… Read More »Toronto Residents Take Air Quality Monitoring Into Their Own Hands
AARP Senior Planet talk: Air Quality Monitoring by Citizen Scientists
Thank you to the AARP/Senior Planet team for hosting us early in 2025 for an invited talk titled “Air Quality Monitoring by Citizen Scientists“. In this presentation, we discussed our work to help democratize air quality monitoring through our design and development of the Local Haze air quality monitoring app, working to make air quality… Read More »AARP Senior Planet talk: Air Quality Monitoring by Citizen Scientists
The Local Haze Apple Watch app will soon be available for beta release!
Local Haze is an iPhone app that crowdsources over 32,000 air quality sensors across six continents. We are excited to announce that our upcoming release will include an Apple Watch app in the existing “all functionality” subscription. If you would like to participate in a beta release of Local Haze, including Watch support, you will… Read More »The Local Haze Apple Watch app will soon be available for beta release!
Air quality data from United States Embassies is no longer available
The Local Haze team regrets to announce that air quality data from United States Embassies is no longer available. For years, our work on the Local Haze has relied on accurate, real-time air quality data from the US Department of State measured at US Embassies worldwide. The shutdown of this program is a blow to… Read More »Air quality data from United States Embassies is no longer available
Around the World in 80 Air Quality Sensors – Stop #7: Nairobi
We are taking a worldwide tour highlighting 80 AQI sensors around the globe, checking out how citizen scientists and air quality enthusiasts are monitoring their local air quality. On stop #7 we are checking out the air quality in Nairobi, Kenya!
MIT Panel: “New Air Monitoring for Tracking Health and Energy Benefits” Q&A now available
The Local Haze team participated in a panel discussion with leaders from Piera Systems and Accenture on the impact of new, lower-cost air quality monitors used in communities worldwide and how these innovative technologies provide more data sources for understanding health impacts and the effects of the ongoing energy transition. The panel was hosted by MIT EESN member Sarah Simon.
Adding a Local Haze widget
Local Haze has a new release with support for adding widgets to your iPhone Home Screen!
An environmental engineer’s thoughts on air quality
For the Local Haze Blog we interviewed Sarah Simon, a Boston-based environmental engineer, author, and former Deputy Director of the Air Quality Division at the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection. Sarah is the author of the book “Protecting Clean Air: Preventing Pollution” (published by Momentum Press in 2017)
Around the World in 80 Air Quality Sensors – Stop #6: Madagascar
We are taking a worldwide tour highlighting 80 AQI sensors around the globe, checking out how citizen scientists and air quality enthusiasts are monitoring their local air quality. On stop #6 we are checking out the air quality in Madagascar!