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New research out of Canada shows fumes from diesel-powered vehicles (like the trucks and trains that come through Salt Lake City) could be affecting how brains function.
In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at how grocery story refrigerants are contributing to global warming and how air pollution is changing our brains.
Exposure to diesel exhaust for just two hours led to changes in brain function connectivity, a measure of how different regions of the brain interact with each other, according to one of the researchers.
Smoke from wildfires in New Mexico may have spread as far away as South Dakota on Saturday.
The easiest way to avoid wildfire smoke is to stay indoors. But that gets complicated when the indoor air could harbor COVID-19.