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Guess what’s happening with Canadian wildfire smoke now covering a lot of the Eastern U.S., triggering bad air-quality warnings. Many more people are wearing N95 face masks again. After all, such ...

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With dangerous air quality from the devastating Camp Fire near Chico forcing hundreds of schools to cancel class, hundreds of thousands of parents to scramble for child care, and our lungs to scramble ...

Amazon is giving consumers a high-quality alternative to the particulate respirator type N95. It is recommended to be reserved for medical workers. With that, the e-commerce company just released a ...

Toby Lewsadder stepped outside an Ace Hardware store wearing a simple one-strap dust mask. He knew it wasn't the right defense against the wildfire smoke lingering in the air, but it was all he could ...