What is PM2.5 and Why Should I Care?
It’s easy to recognise when food is mouldy or when water is dirty but when it comes to the air we breathe how can we really tell how clean it is? The average person takes around 20,000 breaths per ...
Our Commitment: 2021 Pledge For The Planet
Caring for the planet and the people on it is at the very heart of AusAir. We were founded on the simple belief that everyone deserves to breathe safe air. We want to be the best in the world, whil...
How Does Wildfire Smoke Affect Our Health?
18 million hectares of bushland were destroyed during the Australian Wildfires of 2019. The resulting smoke plume spanned an area of 1.3 billion acres, which roughly equates to the size of the 11 l...
Clean Air: A Basic Human Right
Polluted air is a global health crisis. Every minute ten adults die prematurely because of dirty air inhaled over their lifetime. The five million deaths annually attributed to air pollution is lar...
Why High-filtration Masks are Superior to Cloth Masks
“We don’t want people to think that just any piece of cloth is good enough and have a false sense of security.” These were the words of Dr. Scott Segal, chair of anaesthesiology at Wake Forest ...