Posters presented at the CHEST 2024 annual meeting demonstrated air pollution's role in lung impairment and disease, highlighting the urgent need for providers to address the escalating impacts of ...

Researchers at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have uncovered a critical, underrecognized trade-off in global environmental ...

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

Diet patterns and air pollution have been recognized as factors that affect the onset of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). However, the combined effects of these factors on COPD incidence ...

We are exposed to air pollution daily. When we step outside, we inhale pollutants from particulate matter (such as smoke or dust), burning fossil fuels, wildfires and more. For Lung Cancer Awareness ...

Urban haze pollution is a major problem affecting outdoor environmental quality, thereby hindering the construction of ecological civilization and healthy urban development. The urban physical ...

India, June 24 -- Aircraft emissions may double air pollution deaths by 2040 if aviation activity continues to grow and ...

September 7 is the International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies. Each year, an estimated seven million people around the world are killed by effects from air pollution, which include cancer, strokes, ...

Tracy J. Wholf is a senior coordinating producer of climate and environmental coverage for CBS News and Stations, based in New York. When the Environmental Protection Agency was formed in 1970, its ...

The cleaner air experienced by many cities during the COVID-19 pandemic is well documented but a new study from Colombia ...

Researchers find increases in toxic chemical in the air in some areas as people switch to cheaper wood burning ...

Changes in Body Mass Index (BMI) during adolescence play an important role in the association between air pollution exposure and insulin resistance, according to a new study led by investigators from ...