A new report shows air pollution threatens the majority of the world’s population, while information gaps increase the risks.

Even at levels safe for humans, air pollution can disrupt the way some insects communicate with plants, and with each other.

In October 1948, a thick haze rolled into Donora, Pennsylvania, a steel town in the Monongahela Valley, south of Pittsburgh. For five days, toxic fumes from a zinc smelter – a plant that turns zinc ...

Socioeconomic factors are widely recognized as potential modifiers of the relationship between air pollution and mortality, but the available evidence remains limited. In this context, a new study led ...

In Europe, the poorest regions suffer the most from the health effects of air pollution, according to a new study. View on ...

One of the most apparent effects of air pollution is acid rain that occurs when rain, snow, mists, or dust become abnormally acidic as a result of substances emitted into the air. The origin of it is ...

A University of Utah found summer heat and nitrogen dioxide associated with winter inversions contribute to the rising suicide rate.

After joining the GBD 2021 Household Air Pollution team, an international effort to quantify the global health burden of ...

Air pollution silently reduces global cognitive potential, driving inequality and threatening brain health across all generations.

Air pollution caused by wildfires can raise the risks of cardiovascular events and death, but the impact is inconsistent, according to new data from two major California wildfires. Increased risks of ...

The waves of U.S. and Israeli bomb strikes in Tehran and Beirut, and Iran’s missile and drone attacks on neighboring ...

Air pollution harms the lungs, heart and brain in India. Learn the main sources, who is at risk, health effects, and ...