This review highlights how air pollution and occupational inhalation exposures may contribute to neurodegenerative disorders ...

For COPD patients, the adage holds true: "the first way to get out of a hole is to quit digging one," said Christopher Mosher ...

New research has identified the mechanism by which air pollution damages the lungs’ self-cleaning system, leaving us ...

Air pollution is the second leading risk factor for death globally, with most of the world population subject to harmful air ...

Reductions have occurred in the number of deaths attributable to the types of pollution associated with extreme poverty. However, these reductions in deaths from household air pollution and water ...

Smoke from Canadian wildfires in recent years may have had an impact on New York's air quality, according to a recently ...

During the fire-prone late summer months analyzed during the study, wildfire smoke accounted for 56% to 65% of PM and 18% to ...

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 ...

Environmental groups and public health advocates condemned the vote, saying the rollback could cause higher pollution and harm human health. "What that will mean for Americans is more hazardous air ...

The CRA would repeal a rule that helped ensure polluting facilities monitored and controlled their emissions and will likely lead to those facilities increasing the levels of toxic air pollution they ...

Researchers also found that offspring had lasting epigenetic changes affecting their lungs and immune response. "This highlights the importance of protecting pregnant women from air pollution ...