For children already diagnosed with asthma, air pollution is a known irritant and trigger for symptoms such as wheezing, ...

People in many parts of the world lack access to clean water, but boiling water to make it safer often requires burning wood ...

C onstant exposure to air pollution is a serious health concern. It doesn't just affect your lungs, it can impact nearly ...

Before the EPA, the US environment was not federally protected. Vintage photos show Los Angeles before regulations limited ...

"Since the act passed, the air pollution has gone down overall," Laura Kate Bender, an assistant vice president at the American Lung Association, told CBS News. "The challenge is that over the ...

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.

In a sweeping new study of more than 13,000 urban areas worldwide, researchers have mapped air pollution levels and carbon ...

A new study from Milan reveals that short-term exposure to air pollutants like black carbon and VOCs significantly alters the ...

The Detroit metro area has the sixth-worst air quality in the nation for year-round pollution, according to a newly released report from the American Lung Association. The Lung Association's ...

Colorado has consistently failed to meet federal standards for ground-level ozone across the Front Range where 3.3 million ...

In a sweeping new study of more than 13,000 urban areas worldwide, researchers have mapped air pollution levels and carbon dioxide emissions, providing comprehensive global analysis of urban ...