Cleaner air can mean fewer asthma attacks, fewer heart and lung illnesses, and lower medical costs.

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

The city and community groups reached a settlement in 2023. It included the city-wide air monitoring network, which Chicago ...

Researchers from Tampere University and the University of Helsinki have identified an unexpected chemical process that may ...

Parts of India, including the capital Delhi, were once again covered in thick smog recently as toxic pollution from industry and crop-burning engulfed the region. Even though India's National Clean ...

Long-term inhalation of toxic air appears to dull the protective power of regular workouts, according to a massive global study spanning more than a decade and over a million adults. While exercise ...

Delhi: 442. Lahore: 334. Beijing: 16. These are the levels of PM 2.5, one of the principle measures for air pollution, on November 19. As Pakistanis and Indians struggle with hazardous air quality, in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover global and domestic health care and conservation. A recent policy debate in Washington caught my attention. Earlier this ...

Air pollution has been linked to a host of poor health outcomes, from respiratory infections to suicide risk. Now, new research in the Wasatch Front of Utah—which occasionally experiences the worst ...

Air pollution is a widespread issue affecting millions of people around the world, causing disastrous effects. But we humans are not the only ones to suffer from unclean air. In the last decade, a ...

When indoor air pollution makes the news in western countries, it often feels like a local issue. One week it focuses on wood-burning stoves. Another it is gas cookers or the question of whether ...

For many people with asthma, air-quality advisories are harbingers of worsening symptoms. But for reasons science has struggled to explain, the extent to which pollution exacerbates asthma varies ...