Reducing air pollution is a universally acknowledged goal, heralded for its potential to improve public health and environmental quality. However, amidst the enthusiasm for cleaner air, a critical ...

Nearly 40% of Americans live where the air is polluted enough to harm them, a new report warns. In the American Lung Association's "State of the Air" report, released Wednesday, the number of people ...

With temperatures set to soar again in Europe, the link between heatwaves and air pollution is back under the spotlight.

For many people with asthma, air-quality advisories are harbingers of worsening symptoms. But for reasons science has ...

Rainfall history is just as critical to predicting air pollution as where the air came from, a team led by University of ...

Researchers from Tampere University and the University of Helsinki have identified an unexpected chemical process that may influence the formation of air pollution particles in urban environments. The ...

New research by a collaboration of U.K.-based scientists has revealed that common indoor and outdoor air pollutants can alter both brain and respiratory function within just four hours of exposure, ...

Most of the world has dirty air, with just 17% of cities globally meeting air pollution guidelines, a report Tuesday found. Switzerland-based air quality monitoring database IQAir analyzed data from ...

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 pollution has a significant global impact on human health. Epidemiological evidence strongly suggests that airborne particulate matter (PM), the dust components of polluted air, is associated with ...

According to the 2019 Child and Adolescent Mental Health report published by the Statistics National Institute of the United Kingdom, mental disorders between the ages of 5 and 15 have increased from ...