The second-largest cause of lung cancer is exposure to radon, a naturally occurring radioactive gas. Lung cancer can also be caused by air pollution, which introduces dangerous compounds into the ...

More toxic than other sources of pollution, wildfire smoke can cause a range of health effects, from mild coughs, itchy eyes and headaches to dizziness, wheezing, chest pains, asthma attacks, ...

A plume of dust is affecting air quality in Florida and may reach other Southern states soon. Here’s what we know about the ...

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

When the head of the Environmental Protection Agency earlier this year announced a massive rollback of environmental ...

29 The Ghana Randomized Air Pollution and Health Study (GRAPHS) measured the effect of prenatal exposure to household air pollution on infant lung function at 30 days ... parameters (which were both ...

A Russian rocket attack targeted the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy, killing at least four people and wounding 25.

There's been a long history of air pollution in Memphis' Boxtown neighborhood. But could the recent spotlight on xAI lead to ...

Smoke from Canadian wildfires carried another day of poor air quality south of the border to the Midwest, where conditions in ...

A California study finds that exposure to wildfire smoke significantly increases the risk of death among lung cancer patients ...

In a study published in the journal Science Advances, we found that wildfire smoke likely contributed to more than 52,000 premature deaths across California alone from 2008 to 2018, with an economic ...

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