WBUR TODAY: Bad air
❤️ Donate Friday, July 17, 2026 🌞 Sunny, high of 84 Good Morning Boston, TGIF! You made it through a hot, hazy, smoky week. Let's get right into it: Clean air acts: With all the wildfire smoke this week, you may have been staying indoors to avoid the crappy air quality . Well, we have bad news. Research from Worcester Polytechnic Institute shows that smoke particles can get into homes and have negative health impacts. Even worse for us here in New England, this week's air was much smokier than the conditions they tested in the lab, co-author and WPI professor Nancy Ma told WBUR's Stevee Chapman. "It's definitely beyond the threshold we monitored," she said. "It's insane. It's almost, I think, 20 times more. If we're talking about the peak time, it's almost 30 times more." Who's most at risk? The health harms are especially severe for children. Worse air quality can lead to sleep apnea in kids. Plus, while we're asleep we...