More than 150 million people across the United States, including nearly half the nation’s children, live in areas affected by harmful levels of air pollution, according to a new report published ...

Although our air is much less polluted now than it was some decades ago, in 2023 around 280 000 people in Europe died prematurely due to air pollution. Agriculture is the biggest source of air ...

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.

Epidemiological studies have linked dirty air to dementia and other brain disorders. Now researchers are trying to determine how pollutants do their damage, and how much harm they cause. In 2012, ...

Air in the U.S. has gotten cleaner for decades, adding years to people's lives and preventing millions of asthma attacks, but nearly half of Americans still live with unhealthy air pollution, a new ...

On July 22, the world experienced its hottest day in recorded history. The global average temperature reached 17.2 degrees C (62.9 degrees F), prompting U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres to ...

Although many are aware of air pollution’s link to respiratory diseases, its impact on the cardiovascular system is less well-known. Here, Harvard Chan environmental health experts explain how air ...

In a recent study published in BMC Public Health, researchers investigated how the combined impact of lifestyle factors and ambient air pollution affects the risk of developing non-alcoholic fatty ...

This summer has been a stark reminder that we have a homegrown air pollution problem that’s not going away on its own,” said Kirsten Schatz of the CoPIRG Foundation.