Air pollution can affect more than just the lungs—it may trigger headaches and migraines by causing inflammation and chemical ...

Air pollution affects all organs, including the liver and pancreas, increasing insulin resistance. It is also behind the ...

Global rates of death caused by heart conditions, diabetes and obesity due to air pollution significantly increased over the past decade, according to the 2024 World Heart Report, and emissions caused ...

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 ...

Studies increasingly find links between higher concentrations of certain pollutants and the prevalence of dementia. By Paula Span For years, the two patients had come to the Penn Memory Center at the ...

The majority of agricultural land has air pollution levels above legal limits, threatening crop production. Air pollution exposure kills more than 350,000 people in Europe every year despite ...

Companies are offering much-needed, but expensive, air purification systems to shelter from the smog in one of the world’s ...

Even in a world committed to tackling climate change, premature deaths associated with air pollution could still rise in ...

Chicagoans are likely to face the usual hot, muggy and wet summer this year but with less extreme heat and nowhere near as much smoke from wildfires as last year. That’s what experts predict after ...

The air quality in Mecklenburg County sat at 50, which is considered safe for outdoor activities, according to the Environmental Protection Agency — but going outside when air quality is poor can hurt ...

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