A recent analysis by the U.N. children’s agency found that more than 500 million children in East Asia and Pacific countries ...

New research shows that inhaling polluted air for just an hour can impair cognitive abilities like attention and emotional ...

Research reveals that even low levels of air pollution significantly increase the risk of respiratory infections in adults, ...

In this video, we explore how targeted investments can help limit air pollution, which causes 8 million premature deaths a ...

Donald Trump has made drastic changes to the Environmental Protection Agency. Here’s how they could impact efforts to reform ...

In older animals, air pollution seems to accelerate the deposition ... and in human volunteers who have a family history of dementia. The volunteers are breathing various air pollutants in the ...

One of the key changes proposed is the establishment of “cumulative impact” scores. They would represent the totality of ...

Dementia risk has been linked to air pollution exposure — particularly PM2.5 exposure — through a growing body of medical ...

Economic losses were in the billions. Pollution takes many forms in India, including the use of poorly-ventilated stoves and open fires for cooking inside dwellings. Photo by Mark Katzman. Air ...

People's ability to interpret emotions or focus on performing a task is reduced by short-term exposure to particulate matter (PM) air pollution, potentially making everyday activities, such as the ...