People may be exposed to unhealthy levels of airborne pollutants inside their homes, even if the outdoor air quality is good, ...

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

Learn about the hidden dangers of air pollution. Discover how it can impair brain function and affect cognitive processes.

“I saw firsthand the choices people had to make about whether to go outside or let their children go outside. Even though we’ve studied air pollution health effects for decades, these new challenges ...

To fill this gap in knowledge, a team from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), a centre supported by the "la Caixa" Foundation, assessed the effect of air pollution on hospital ...

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

Feb. 3, 2025 — A recent study has uncovered compelling evidence suggesting that the climate effects of new particles in urban areas have been significantly ... Low-Level Traffic Air Pollution ...

Among infants and children air pollution increases risk for premature birth, low birthweight, stillbirth, impaired lung development, and asthma. “All of these adverse health effects occur at fine ...

Unfavourable effects on the respiratory and the cardiovascular systems from short-term and long-term inhalation of air pollution are well documented. Exposure to freshly generated mixed combustion ...

A team of researchers say they want to look at what exposure to toxins from thousands of burned structures does to people ...

Pollution can affect us in more ways that we can fathom. According to a recent study led by Thomas Faherty, Jane E. Raymond, ...

Everyone loves a breath of fresh air. Unfortunately, too often our air is anything but fresh. While air quality varies ...