A study shows harm in short-term exposures and proposes a particulate threshold that could influence air quality alerts.

March 11 (UPI) --Fewer than one in five global cities met World Health Organization air pollution standards in 2024 with Central and South Asia accounting for the nine most polluted metropolitan areas ...

A form of harmful air pollution that often can't be plainly observed is now being tracked with a groundbreaking new tool developed by scientists that allows residents to see where it's coming from.

Air pollution ranks among the world's deadliest threats, causing an estimated 8 million deaths in 2021, according to a recent analysis from a United Nations partnership. That same year, pollutants ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Three environmental factors that have an impact on lung health are being worsened with events of climate change.

Exposure to air pollution may directly increase your risk for Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study.

Nestled beside traffic-choked New York Avenue NE, the historically Black Ivy City neighborhood in Washington, D.C., was built in the late 19th century as a community for African American laborers who ...

Tiny air pollution particles may be doing more than irritating our lungs. A new study links long-term exposure to PM2.5 to a ...

TEXAS, USA — This article was originally published by our content partners at the Texas Tribune. Read the original article here. Twelve Texas counties have recently exceeded federal air quality ...

There's something invisible that can put us in an early grave. And I’m not talking about sentient AI, but something much more ubiquitous and real. While AI doomers predict the existential risk that ...

For years, the two patients had come to the Penn Memory Center at the University of Pennsylvania, where doctors and researchers follow people with cognitive impairment as they age, as well as a group ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People brave "severe plus" smog shrouding New Delhi, India, on November 15 when the National Capital Region's Air Quality Index ...