Although our air is much less polluted now than it was some decades ago, each year around 300 000 people in Europe die prematurely due to air pollution. In 2021, 97% of the people living in urban ...

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 ...

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — With the arrival of cold and foggy winter weather amid the pandemic, eastern Europe is facing an extra respiratory health hazard — air pollution. Countries such as ...

Nicholas KhundrakpamDelhi is no longer breathing. It is suffocating. Each winter morning, the capital awakens beneath a thick grey shroud neither fog nor cloud, but a toxic mixture of dust, smoke, and ...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Piggybacking on a major national study, scientists at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and several other centers will try to determine the degree to which air pollution ...

Millions of people die prematurely every year from diseases and cancer caused by air pollution. The first line of defense against this carnage is ambient air quality standards. Yet, according to ...

Delhi AQI crosses hazardous level, damages lungs, heart, brain, and immunity.82 per cent Delhi-NCR residents know someone with severe air pollution health issues.Children, senior citizens, pregnant ...

Congress has voted to undo a Clean Air Act regulation that strictly controls the amount of toxic air pollutants emitted by many industrial facilities like oil refineries, chemical plants, and steel ...

One in three countries have no legally-mandated outdoor air quality standards, according to a new report by the United Nations (UN). According to global study of air quality legislation by the UN ...