People's ability to interpret emotions or focus on performing a task is reduced by short-term exposure to particulate matter (PM) air pollution, potentially making everyday activities, such as the ...

Long-term exposure to PM2.5, PM10, NO2 and ozone (O3) air pollution is associated with more hospital admissions for lower respiratory tract infections in adults.

A coalition of environmental and health groups is pushing for more community decision-making power in Allegheny County when ...

Air pollution is linked to the daily deaths of over 100 children under five in East Asia and the Pacific, according to a ...

A colleague had been studying how air pollution around the university harms the hearts and lungs of mice, and had asked Cory-Slechta to check the animals’ brains for damage. As a specialist in ...

Air pollution is a growing health issue worldwide, and its impacts are often underestimated in aging societies like Japan.

The World Health Organization 2024 report recently urged world leaders to “reduce pollution-related diseases and cut carbon emissions,” considering that air pollution—particularly extremely ...

The average concentration of PM2.5 particles -- the most harmful air pollutants -- in Dhaka is about 18 times higher than the global health standard, leaving millions of residents struggling for ...

Wildfires contribute to harmful fine particle pollution, which is at levels bad for human health in the area even before the wildfires. The American Lung Association’s State of the Air report ...

7 vs .6), but air frying came out on top. Lead author Christian Pfrang said, "There are a number of factors that will affect the levels of pollution from cooking alongside the method used ...