For most of my professional life I have thought about air pollution through the organs I know best. As a heart and lung surgeon, I spent decades studying how polluted air damages lungs, damages the ...

University of Utah Health researchers have linked particulate matter (PM2.5) air pollution with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH)—bleeding within the brain caused by a ruptured aneurysm.

Air pollution is a global health concern, with over 90% of the world's population breathing air that exceeds World Health Organization safety standards. Fine and coarse particulate matter are ...

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

Smog from wildfires sweeping the nation has left tens of millions more Americans to breathe toxic air even as man-made forms of pollution fall, according to a new study released Wednesday. The ...

HOUSTON – The Houston-Pasadena metropolitan area ranks seventh worst in the nation for ozone pollution and eighth worst for particle pollution, according to the American Lung Association’s annual air ...

This story is part of the WHYY News Climate Desk, bringing you news and solutions for our changing region. From the Poconos to the Jersey Shore to the mouth of the Delaware Bay, what do you want to ...

Physician-scientists at Oregon Health & Science University warn that exposure to air pollution may have serious implications for a child's developing brain. Air pollution causes harmful contaminants, ...

The video above is from FOX19 NOW’s previous coverage. CINCINNATI (WXIX) - Over three dozen monitors have been installed across Cincinnati’s neighborhoods to monitor the city’s air quality, a tricky ...

Exposure to air pollution may directly increase your risk for Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study. In the study, published Feb. 17 in the open-access journal PLOS Medicine, researchers found ...