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Air quality is of growing concern in communities across our region, because it can affect our health, the environment, and the economy. Poor air quality is the result of many factors, both natural and human caused. Choices we make every day, like driving our cars or burning wood to heat our homes, can significantly impact our local air quality.
Weather and your health
The Pacific and Yukon Region weather services provides many useful services.
Resources for children, parents and teachers
Our Primer on Air Quality in British Columbia explains the basics of air quality and the actions that we can take to improve the quality of air in our communities.
- The Clean Air Picture
- The ABC's of Air Pollution in the Lower Fraser Valley
- Who is responsible for Clean Air?
- Working Together for Clean Air
Why not let Mother nature help teach weather to your class? Join the Sky Watchers program this year and make learning weather the best part of your students' day!
Resources for Volunteers and Communities
- The Air We Breathe - Georgia Basin Ecosystem Initiative 5-Year Perspective
- Georgia Basin Ecosystem Initiative “Sharing the Air” Fact Sheet
- Ecosystem Information
- The Community Outreach Scrapbook demonstrates the collective works of many citizens and organizations throughout B.C. and Yukon who have chosen to make a positive environmental impact in their communities.
- Maple Ridge: the First Smart Growth on the Ground Community
- EcoAction provides financial support to community groups for projects that have measurable, positive impacts on the environment. Priority for funding is given to projects that help improve air quality, for example, by reducing emissions that contribute to smog, climate change and ozone depletion.
Resources for Decision Makers
- For more information about the BAQS Pilot Projects or to access the project studies
- Georgia Basin/ Puget Sound International Airshed Strategy and Inventory of Air Quality Practices
- SMOG-An Indicator of Potential Air Quality Health Risk in the Fraser Valley
- The Impact of Visual Air Quality on Tourism Revenues in Greater Vancouver and the Lower Mainland
Resources for Researchers
- Characterization of the Georgia Basin/Puget Sound Airshed
- Meterological Summary of Pacific 2001Air Quality Field Study
- Pacific 2001 Air Quality Study-Lower Fraser Valley
- Particulate Matter in British Columbia - A Report on PM10 and PM.2.5 mass concentrations up to 2000
- The northern Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network (EMAN-North) is a network for the coordination of ecological monitoring in northern Canada. Environment Canada is working in the three northern territories and northern Manitoba in close partnership with many agencies and programs to develop this network.
