{"id":74649,"date":"2026-06-09T08:56:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/this-us-neighborhood-is-full-of-hazardous-air-pollution-can-a-network-of-sensors-make-the-invisible-visible\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T08:56:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:56:27","slug":"this-us-neighborhood-is-full-of-hazardous-air-pollution-can-a-network-of-sensors-make-the-invisible-visible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/this-us-neighborhood-is-full-of-hazardous-air-pollution-can-a-network-of-sensors-make-the-invisible-visible\/","title":{"rendered":"This US neighborhood is full of hazardous air pollution. Can a network of sensors make \u2018the invisible visible\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pacoima is hemmed in by highways and heavy industry, and its residents are fighting pollution with hyperlocal air quality monitoring<\/p>\n<p>Jose Luis Salas looks up at the ladder. \u201cAre you ready?\u201d he asks Shance Taylor, an environmental project manager who\u2019s holding a white container, about the size of a shoebox, covered with wires and numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor nods and climbs up to reach the side of Salas\u2019s tidy house in Pacoima, a neighborhood in Los Angeles\u2019s north-east San Fernando valley. The curious box in their hands is known as Aeroqual sensor \u2013 part of a community air-quality monitoring program run by Pacoima Beautiful, a local environmental group.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/09\/pacoima-pollution-air-sensors-monitoring\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pacoima is hemmed in by highways and heavy industry, and its residents are fighting pollution with hyperlocal air quality monitoring Jose Luis Salas looks up at the ladder. \u201cAre you ready?\u201d he asks Shance Taylor, an environmental project manager who\u2019s holding a white container, about the size of a shoebox, covered with wires and numbers. &#8230; <a title=\"This US neighborhood is full of hazardous air pollution. Can a network of sensors make \u2018the invisible visible\u2019?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/this-us-neighborhood-is-full-of-hazardous-air-pollution-can-a-network-of-sensors-make-the-invisible-visible\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about This US neighborhood is full of hazardous air pollution. Can a network of sensors make \u2018the invisible visible\u2019?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}