Each fire’s impact could depend on what was burning, for how long, and levels of public awareness, researchers hypothesize.

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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are improving weather forecasting models so that they better represent air ...

Is your home’s air secretly making you dumber? One hour of air pollution (even indoors) can cloud your mind, wreck your focus ...

Short-term exposure to air pollution can impair cognitive functions like attention and emotion recognition. These issues ...

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Dementia risk has been linked to air pollution exposure — particularly PM2.5 exposure — through a growing body of medical ...

Air pollution harms cognitive functions by damaging brain cells, reducing oxygen flow, and increasing inflammation, leading ...

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It is hard to believe that inside your homes, where you are living, the air might be as, if not more so, polluted than ...