Less commonly, lung cancer can also be a result of air pollution — the addition of harmful substances into the air. In 2013, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) of the World Health ...

Tarik, age 42, lives in a village adjacent to a decades-old coal power plant in Bosnia and Herzegovina. On the day we visited, Bosnian cities were some of the most polluted places on Earth. Describing ...

Cardiovascular diseases are the world’s leading cause of disability and death. Such diseases were responsible in 2019 for an estimated 18.6 million deaths globally and 957,000 deaths in the United ...

We analyzed 623 million person-years of Medicare data from 73 million persons 65 years of age or older from 2000 through 2016 to estimate associations between annual PM 2.5 exposure and mortality in ...

Almost half of everyone who lives in the United States breathes unhealthy levels of air pollution, according to the American Lung Association’s annual State of the Air report, released Wednesday.

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

All but one of the 100 cities with the world’s worst air pollution last year were in Asia, according to a new report, with the climate crisis playing a pivotal role in bad air quality that is risking ...

Clean air is considered one of the basic requirements of human health and well-being. However, more than 90% of the world population was exposed to air quality levels that exceeded the World Health ...

How is air pollution related to climate change? We asked Yewande Awe, a Senior Environmental Engineer at the World Bank, to explain why addressing air pollution is key to tackle the climate challenge.

County council officials have drawn up plans for “healthier air” in Hertfordshire, with a focus on air quality inside ...

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The capital of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar continue to rank among the most polluted cities in the world. This year’s extreme air pollution demonstrated the failure of a series of government policies, ...