No pollution is good for anyone’s health, but a new study found that scientists may have significantly underestimated just how deadly pollution from coal-fired plants can be. It also shows how ...

The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to scrap two major federal regulations that limit air pollution and ...

Air pollution is slashing years from billions of people’s lives around the world and is a greater threat to life expectancy than smoking, HIV/AIDS or war, a report published Wednesday shows.

Seven out of the 10 cities studied, including New Delhi, Seoul, Wuhan and Mumbai, saw significant improvements in air quality. Those with historically higher levels of PM2.5 pollution witnessed ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. ... Air pollution from wildfire smoke kills around 15,000 people per year in the US, through heart disease, lung disease, asthma, ...

According to one estimate , air pollution kills 9 million people worldwide each year – more than smoking. Rather than killing otherwise healthy people, air pollution tends to aggravate the ...

Indoor air pollution killed more than 3 million people in 2020, almost as many as did its outdoor counterpart. And yet it has been mostly invisible to science, and to policy.

“When we first investigated the plastic pipe air pollution practice, we discovered there had been no independent testing or oversight,” Whelton said. “It was being used in neighborhoods and in ...

Exposure to air pollution can damage the heart within hours, according to a new study. It can cause an irregular heartbeat straight away and is linked with cardiac arrhythmia, common symptoms of ...

Unhealthy air has declined by 42.3 percent since 2013, the year before the country began a “war against pollution”. As a result, the average Chinese citizen can expect to live 2.2 years longer.

Current air pollution levels in the U.S., which are much better than they were before the passage of the Clean Air Act of 1970, are still responsible for more than 88,000 deaths a year, according ...