The report by the American Lung Association argues community-based air quality monitoring reveals pollution patterns ...

Now that the Central Coast area has entered peak wildfire season, the Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and Ventura counties Air Pollution Control districts (APCD) are urging residents to prepare for ...

BILLINGS, Mont. -- Wildfire smoke accounted for up to half of all health-damaging small particle air pollution in the western U.S. in recent years as warming temperatures fueled more destructive ...

American Lung Association report focuses on improving community-based air monitoring in high pollution areas; Cultivando AIRE project serves as potential blueprint for other communities ...

We are exposed to air pollution daily. When we step outside, we inhale pollutants from particulate matter (such as smoke or dust), burning fossil fuels, wildfires and more. For Lung Cancer Awareness ...

Reductions in tobacco smoking have led to lower rates of lung cancer in many places. But people who have never smoked still get lung cancer. In fact, globally, their numbers are proportionally on the ...

American Lung Association report focuses on improving community-based air monitoring in high pollution areas; the PurpleAirs in Schools Program in Montana serves as potential blueprint for other commu ...

Short-term air pollution from the 2023 Canadian wildfire smoke may have raised stroke rates and severity in New Jersey, a new ...

Short-term surges in air pollution in New Jersey from the 2023 Canadian wildfires were associated with a higher stroke rate and more serious strokes, according to a preliminary study to be presented ...

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 ...

Smoke from burning garbage at the Matuail and Amin Bazar landfills often blankets Dhaka’s sky, underscoring how poor waste ...

Oil fires can also release sulphur and nitrogen oxides, which can form acids if they dissolve in rainwater, as well as other ...