Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Air pollution has been convincingly linked to respiratory illnesses and further health problems. Pia Bayer/dpa Air pollution has ...

Air pollution is responsible for 8 million deaths a year globally, which is as many as tobacco. And air pollution isn't just causing lung cancer, it may cause other cancers too—including neck cancer ...

Air pollution from oil and gas is causing 91,000 premature deaths and hundreds of thousands of health issues across the United States annually, with Black, Asian, Native American and Hispanic groups ...

A research team from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology has shown in a new study that ants returning from habitats affected by air pollution are attacked when they re-enter the colony. The ...

People in areas of the United States with high levels of a certain kind of air pollution have a greater risk of dementia, a new study found. The study, published Monday in the journal JAMA Internal ...

Everyone knows that air pollution is bad for health, but how bad depends a lot on who you are. People of different races and ethnicities, education levels, locations and socioeconomic situations tend ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Francesca Dominici is director of the Harvard Data Science Initiative. The World Health Organization 2024 report recently urged ...

Air pollution is a major risk factor for respiratory infections in children, with prenatal and postnatal exposure increasing vulnerability. Key pollutants include particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, ...

Exposure to air pollution is fueling fluctuations in mood among many Americans, but precisely how these emotional responses take shape varies greatly from individual to individual, a new study has ...

At the recent French-Speaking Pneumology Congress held in Marseille, France, between January 24 and 26, 2025, Olivier Brun, a pulmonologist at the Hospital Center of Perpignan in Perpignan, France, ...

A new report estimates pollution from Sasol's Secunda complex causes about 1,000 premature deaths every year, while nearby ...

Bad air quality can contribute to bronchitis, particularly if there is pollution from cigarette smoke. Other pollutants in the environment, such as toxic gases and dust, can also increase the risk.