Students Design Air Quality Solutions
By the Division for Air Quality When Division for Air Quality educator Roberta Burnes works with students, she often starts with a single question: How do we know if the air [...]
Air Quality
Fighting Kentucky’s wildfires: A great coordinated effort
By Lanny Brannock and Carrie Searcy The smell is what you notice first. It smells like a crackling fireplace or a bonfire, but then you see the blanket of blue smoke wafting [...]
Burn wisely this winter
By Roberta Burnes The Division for Air Quality Not long ago, I was visiting an elementary school, talking to students about air quality. I often carry a jar of air with me [...]
Teaching about air quality with electric cars
By the Division for Air Quality Staff How do you teach about something you can’t see or touch? Air quality educator Roberta Burnes tackles that challenge with physical [...]
Greener lawn care for cleaner air
By Roberta Burnes Division for Air Quality Photos courtesy of Shutterstock Every year, Americans burn more than 800 million gallons of gasoline mowing their lawns. [...]
Learning with lichens
By Roberta Burnes Division for Air Quality What can forests tell us about the air we breathe? On a misty October morning, a group of people gathered in the shadow of Pine [...]
Protecting Air Quality by burning down the house
By Roberta Burnes Division for Air Quality Frankfort City Fire Captain John Redfern is very familiar with the health risks of smoke. “Dealing with smoke is just part of [...]
Keeping a watchful eye on air quality
ABOVE: Boggs walks through the snow to prepare samples. Environmental Scientist Ashley Bedel weighs a filter to determine the concentration collected. Photos by Roberta [...]
