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 ...

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 ...

IQAir, which also tracks AQI, lists the value for the city's air quality as slightly higher with a score of 71 on Friday morning, though that still falls within the "moderate" classification.

First Alert Weather: Temperatures swing this weekend - 1/24/25 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 it?

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 ...

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.

2:45 pm ET Update: Air quality along the Atlantic Coast of the United States, and particularly in New York City, worsened substantially on Wednesday due to smoke from Canadian wildfires being ...

If you have been hearing about poor air quality in New York City Friday, you can breathe a deep sigh of relief (literally): our air quality is fine. Typical air quality in the city falls below 50 ...

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 ...

The New York City metropolitan-area has cut its PM2.5 pollution by 40% over the last 20 years with stringent regulations and enforcement from the state’s aggressive air pollution control program ...

As of Thursday morning, New York City and Washington, D.C. have the two worst air quality conditions in America, according to IQ Air’s live ranking of major world cities, which ranks the cities ...