As the weather warms up and an abundance of sunshine is welcomed, the Fort Carson community is encouraged to do its part to minimize peak ground-level ozone, which is an increased risk in the summer.

For a large part of the last two weeks, Steven Brown, an air quality chemist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has soared over Colorado’s Front Range in a slow-flying Twin ...

Ground level ozone (O3) also tropospheric ozone, is a trace gas of the troposphere, with an average concentration of 20–30 parts per billion by volume (ppbv), with close to 100 ppbv in polluted areas.

Ozone as a layer several kilometers up in the atmosphere protects living beings, including humans, from ultraviolet rays. But its accumulation at ground level can be very dangerous, Mongabay ...

Aki Nace has been a web producer for CBS Minnesota since 2019. She covers breaking news and makes short-form documentary films. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency says ozone is the main concern ...

File 2012 - Staff Photo Ozone season is upon North Texas, meaning air quality will be top of mind for some residents. The season — which marks the window when there’s a greater risk of harmful amounts ...

This story originally appeared on Yale Environment 360 and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Sequoia National Park’s famous groves of stout, 300-foot-tall trees sit high on the western side ...

(This story is a corrected and clarified version of a previous story that said ground-level ozone had actually gotten worse in Cleveland.) CLEVELAND, Ohio – The U.S. EPA has downgraded Cleveland’s ...