Despite decades of progress, the air quality in the United States has started to decline over the past few years, according to data in the Environmental Protection Agency's 2024 "Our Nation’s ...

Boston College’s Global Observatory on Planetary Health is first to reveal town-by-town pollution levels and health impacts, including 2,780 deaths in 2019 Air pollution remains a silent killer in ...

Oct. 17, 2024 — U.S. researchers have detected microplastic particles in air exhaled by wild bottlenose dolphins, suggesting that inhalation may be a relevant route of exposure to these ...

Air pollution is a big term that’s often used when talking about the environment and our health. Youth leader Ishaa Asim explores where air pollution comes from and the different ways to help ...

Air pollution is the greatest environmental threat to public health. More significantly, pollutants of human health include particulate matter, carbon monoxide, ozone, nitrogen dioxide and sulfur ...

Economic losses were in the billions. Pollution takes many forms in India, including the use of poorly-ventilated stoves and open fires for cooking inside dwellings. Photo by Mark Katzman. Air ...

Air pollution is even more dangerous than previously thought, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned, as it slashes maximum safe levels of key pollutants such nitrogen dioxide. An ...

Air pollution is the biggest environmental health risk of our time. It also exacerbates climate change, causes economic losses, and reduces agricultural productivity. It knows no borders ...

Oct. 8, 2024 — Countries across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region can overcome major shared environmental challenges such as water scarcity and air pollution by harnessing the power ...

Twenty-five European universities have launched a Network which aims to equip more than 10,000 medical students with the ...

Nearly 4 in 10 Americans – or more than 131 million people – lived in areas with unhealthy levels of air pollution in recent years, a new report finds. And the country’s air pollution ...

Northwest winds coming from these states will also pick up speed gradually, carrying smoke from stubble burning into Delhi, according to air quality forecast agency SAFAR. India's pollution ...