Ambient, or outdoor, air pollution in both cities and rural areas was estimated to cause 4.2 million premature deaths worldwide per year in 2016. This mortality is linked to exposure to small ...

Riverdale, NJ, July 15, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The severity of seasonal allergies increases every year, with some warm and temperate regions of the United States experiencing notable pollen counts ...

Hampton Roads waterways are protected by pollution limits called TMDLs. Experts explain how they work, why they matter, and ...

Researchers explain how nitrate from farming and fish ponds moves through water and pollutes freshwater lakes.

Potentially providing a mechanism to explain the established association between exposure to air pollution and cardiovascular disease, a new study shows that young, healthy, nonsmoking adults show ...

The worsening level of pollution hurts people's health. Due to air pollution, people are becoming victims of many diseases. According to doctors, due to poisonous air, people become victims of ...

In 2013, 9-year-old Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah died after suffering for years from severe asthma attacks. In the years following, inquests into the death of the young girl, who’d lived in the southeast ...

Only 3 percent of the world’s cities meet World Health Organization air quality standards. And yet research shows exposure to air pollution puts people at an increased risk of mental health outcomes ...

Scientists and clean air advocates are well aware that fine particles in the air, known as PM2.5, are correlated with deaths from cardiovascular disease. “You can see days where we have higher ...

Share on Pinterest New research analyzes the impact of air pollution and residential inequities on COVID-19 outcomes. Michael H/Getty Images Research links air pollution with the worsening of a ...

Where a child lives can greatly affect his or her risk for asthma. Neighborhood differences in rates of childhood asthma may be explained by varying levels of air pollution from trucks and residential ...