Air pollution is even more dangerous than smoking or alcohol, researchers concluded. ... For example, the entire continent of Africa receives less than $300,000 to tackle air pollution.

Even at levels below international air quality guidelines, short-term exposure to pollution can send you to the hospital for more reasons than scientists originally thought, a new study finds. The ...

A new study reveals that air pollution, traditional herbal medicines and other environmental exposures are linked to genetic ...

Air Pollution Goes Back Way Further Than You Think ... The jurist Aristo declared, for example, that a cheese shop could not discharge smoke into the buildings above it.

Air pollution is slashing years from billions of people’s lives around the world and is a greater threat to life expectancy than smoking, HIV/AIDS or war, a report published Wednesday shows.

For example, for each unit increase in long-term exposure to fine particulates in the air (measuring 2.5 micrometers in diameter and invisible to the naked eye), 2,536 people were hospitalized ...

Scientists believe they have discovered the first examples of air pollution traveling through the lungs of pregnant women and into their placentas, potentially reaching their fetuses. The study ...

Air in the U.S. has gotten cleaner for decades, adding years to people's lives and preventing millions of asthma attacks, but nearly half of Americans still live with unhealthy air pollution, a ...

A new satellite will take continuous measurements of dangerous air pollution in the U.S. That has scientists, and residents, warily optimistic about undoing decades of environmental injustice.

They also noted a distinct racial effect. “Even when you’re controlling for everything else, a whiter tract is going to be exposed to less air pollution,” Boeing said, referring to census ...

In today’s clean environment, it is challenging to improve air quality enough to detect associated long-term changes in public health. For example, 167 New Yorkers died each day in 2020. For a ...