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OpenAQ @openaq.org · 17h

🚀 New OpenAQ R Package Release v0.8.0: Read the changelog at https://github.com/openaq/openaq-r/releases/tag/v0.8.0

Release v0.8.0 · openaq/openaq-r · GitHub

Changed added additional validation to validate_numeric_vectors to prevent out of bounds integers and doubles added additional validation to restrict radius parameters to fit within max value of 2...

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OpenAQ @openaq.org · 2d

Translated to:

✍🏽 Mongolian: bit.ly/3WuHLW1
✍🏽 French: bit.ly/3VZ2am1
✍🏽 Spanish: bit.ly/3VWXbSQ

OpenAQ @openaq.org · 2d

#ThrowbackThursday! Winter 2016 - 12 OpenAQ Community members from 10 countries + anonymous co-authors shared OpenAQ’s view on the importance & power of open air quality data in the Clean Air Journal.

"To combat air inequality, governments & researchers must open their data." bit.ly/48R7vDu

To combat air inequality, governments and researchers must open their data

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 10d

Visualising historical changes in air pollution with the Air Quality Stripes

Website: airqualitystripes.info

And paper led by @kirstypringle.bsky.social and @jimmcquaid.bsky.social now published which visualises trends in air quality across many global cities: gc.copernicus.org/articles/8/2...

Visualising historical changes in air pollution with the Air Quality Stripes

Abstract. This paper introduces the Air Quality Stripes, a data visualisation project which presents historical changes in outdoor particulate matter air pollution (PM2.5) concentrations across major ...

gc.copernicus.org

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 10d

Some good news.

London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces.

The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

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OpenAQ @openaq.org · 9d

Throwback Thursday! In this blog from 2016 we describe the difference between “open data” and “open-source.”

Read "Is That ‘PM2.5’ on Your Grocery Store List?" at openaq.medium.com/is-that-pm2-...

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OpenAQ @openaq.org · 10d

🚲 Take a trip with us down memory lane.

💻 Find out what new data we are hosting.

👋 Meet our new Applied Data Fellow, Minh Nghiem.

📖 Be inspired by community impact stories.

mailchi.mp/c91f33ac2150...

News: a celebration, new data, inspirational stories

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OpenAQ @openaq.org · 11d

Epidemiologists agree: Ambient air pollution has serious impacts on heart health. See “Ambient air pollution and cardiovascular diseases: An umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses” pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35138681/

Let’s ♥️ our hearts by reducing #AirPollution.

#WorldHeartDay

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OpenAQ @openaq.org · 16d

As described in "The growing impact of air quality on lung-related illness: a narrative review," in the Journal of Thoracic Disease, air pollution is linked to asthma, lung cancer, COPD and many other respiratory illnesses:
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

#WorldLungDay #AirPollution

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OpenAQ @openaq.org · 17d

We are overjoyed to welcome Minh Nghiem to our team. Learn more about Minh on our Medium blog site: link.openaq.org/Minh

We thank @harrissocial.bsky.social's Applied Data Fellowship program for making Minh's fellowship possible.

OpenAQ @openaq.org · 18d

Read how Sustenta Honduras's project, Proyecto Aire Limpio, is addressing low awareness of the harms of air pollution, a lack of air quality monitoring and open data, and the need for national regulations.
link.openaq.org/honduras-aq-...

Sustenta Honduras’ Air Quality Youth Movement

An OpenAQ Community Impact Story by Matt Lane

link.openaq.org

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OpenAQ @openaq.org · 19d

Earth observations are key to supporting public health!

earthobservations.org/about-us/new...

12 innovative Earth observation applications for health in the Americas

At the cutting edge of science, breakthroughs happen when disciplines connect. Earth and health sciences are coming together like never before, using the power of satellites, models, algorithms, cloud...

earthobservations.org

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OpenAQ @openaq.org · 23d

#ThrowbackThursday! In one of our very first blogs, 10 years ago, OpenAQ made the statement below.

Has OpenAQ played a transformational role in YOUR use of #AirQuality data?

Read "Filling The Air Quality Data Gap" at link.openaq.org/aq-data-gap

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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · Sep 7

99% of people breathe air that’s considered polluted. 😷

It damages health, lowers crop yields, deepens inequality and fuels climate change.

For this #CleanAirDay, here are 10 things you should know about air pollution and what can be done about it: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · Sep 8

What are the latest trends in air pollution, where is it worst, and how is forecasting improving?

Released for #CleanAirDay, @wmo-global.bsky.social’s latest Air Quality and Climate Bulletin 2025 has the answers: bit.ly/4gho8Ki

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OpenAQ @openaq.org · Sep 9

We'll be here! Let's meet up during Climate Week!

Columbia University Clean Air Toolbox for Cities Initiative @aqtoolbox.org · Sep 5

Join us during #ClimateWeek @Columbia for an @aqtoolbox.org event,
"Data and Partnerships for Global Clean Air and Climate"

@columbiaseas.bsky.social @climate.columbia.edu @climategroup.bsky.social @openaq.org @columbiauniversity.bsky.social @lamont.columbia.edu @dwesty.bsky.social

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OpenAQ @openaq.org · Sep 9

🥳 Today, OpenAQ celebrates our 10th anniversary!

Reflections from our board chair, Pallavi Pant, in Time Flies When You Are Doing Good: link.openaq.org/Time-Flies

A trip down memory lane: openaq.org/ten-years

Our deepest gratitude to everyone who has been part of our journey and cheered us on. 🙏

Time Flies When You Are Doing Good

By Pallavi Pant, OpenAQ Board Chair and Head of Global Initiatives at Health Effects Institute

openaq.medium.com

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OpenAQ @openaq.org · Sep 5

Together, we can prevail against air pollution.

Pallavi Pant, PhD @pallavipnt.bsky.social · Aug 31

In the run-up to #CleanAirDay, let’s look at some of the organizations around the world leading action on #AirPollution.

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#AirQuality 🧪

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mbelliott33.bsky.social @mbelliott33.bsky.social · Sep 5

Join WRI on Monday for #CleanAirDay! Air #pollution is the #1 environmental risk to health. Partnerships to address poor #airquality are needed now more than ever! bit.ly/cleanairandhealthycities

@ccacoalition.bsky.social @cleanairfund.bsky.social @openaq.org @airquality.bsky.social

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OpenAQ @openaq.org · Sep 4

Throwback Thursday! OpenAQ shares an anniversary with the Open Data Charter. In fact, we will both celebrate our 10th year this coming Tuesday, September 9.

Read this blog from 2022, which describes why we endorsed the international Open Data Charter: lnkd.in/gq4sDxG6

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OpenAQ @openaq.org · Sep 1

Memory Monday! OpenAQ is marching toward our 10th anniversary on 9 September. This blog from 2023 tells the story of how and why we came to be thanks to the foresight and persistence of our founders, @christahasenkopf.bsky.social & Joe Flasher.

openaq.medium.com/the-openaq-o...

The OpenAQ Origin Story

How Our Organization Came To Be

openaq.medium.com

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Luciano Lamaita @lemeit.bsky.social · Aug 21

The OpenAQ Community Ambassador Programme: How AirGradient Supports The Next Generation Of Air Quality Leaders

By Inès Freyre - AirGradient

airgradient.com/blog/open-aq-a…

@openaq.org @achimhaug.bsky.social

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OpenAQ @openaq.org · Aug 20

Explore WASARU’s three-tiered approach to reduce #AirPollution in the #DemocraticRepublicofCongo, including launching a PM2.5 #AirQualityMonitoring network.

WASARU: an Air Quality Pioneer in the Democratic Republic of Congo

An OpenAQ Community Impact Story, Matt Lane, August 2025

link.openaq.org

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csvconf @csvconf.bsky.social · Aug 15

Russ Biggs (@russbiggs.com) will be speaking at #csvconf about "OpenAQ: empowering communities with open air quality data and tools"! Register now: csvconfv9.eventbrite.com

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OpenAQ @openaq.org · Aug 12

Unenforced standards and a lack of legal frameworks leave the most vulnerable populations unprotected from polluted air: 29% of low- and lower-middle-income countries lack these laws, compared to only 7% in upper-middle and high-income countries.

More: link.openaq.org/globalAQregulations

Mapping Air Inequality: Global Gaps in National Frameworks and Unenforced Standards for Ambient Air

By Sulaiman Mathew-Wilson, Health Effects Institute Fellow at OpenAQ

link.openaq.org

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