Air pollution causes cooling by reflecting sunlight or by changing the properties of clouds so they reflect more sunlight.

Efforts to clean up air pollution in China and across East Asia may have inadvertently contributed to a spike in global warming, a new study has found. The decline in aerosol emissions — which can ...

Air pollution reduction – particularly in east Asia – is a key reason for the acceleration of global warming, experts say ...

Considering environmental factors is critical to understanding what drives the physical and cognitive declines, the ...

As record wildfires erupt across Canada this year, with health-threatening smoke drifting into the U.S. and as far away as ...

If you’ve been outside on a smoggy day, you’ve probably noticed that your body reacts poorly to bad air quality. Maybe you coughed, or got a headache. But what actually happens to your body when you ...

A groundbreaking international study of 161,981 participants across 40 countries published in Nature Medicine reveals that ...