With temperatures set to soar again in Europe, the link between heatwaves and air pollution is back under the spotlight.

Pollution affects the whole planet, causing diseases and premature deaths all around the world. Even if you live in a seemingly green city, it still might not be 100% ecologically safe. We can try to ...

BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Nobody is safe from air pollution, the United Nations warned on World Environment Day, with nine out of 10 people on the planet now breathing polluted air.

In 2012, Deborah Cory-Slechta at the University of Rochester, New York, received a “bucket of brains”. A colleague had been studying how air pollution around the university harms the hearts and lungs ...

A growing body of research is showing how breathing polluted air impairs the immune system’s ability to regulate inflammation—and leads to other serious health conditions. Flames and smoke billow from ...

Attribution researches the influence of climate change on local weather and impacts. We issues alerts in many instances when the Climate Shift Index identifies a notable extreme weather event around ...

Rainfall history is just as critical to predicting air pollution as where the air came from, a team led by University of Michigan Engineering researchers, in collaboration with scientists at the ...

A large study links long-term air pollution, even at low levels, to more advanced heart disease risk in women.

A study of older adults found that long-term exposure to fine particulate air pollution was associated with lower semantic ...

Delhi’s air has become very dirty and hard to breathe again. A few days after Diwali, the city is covered in smog, and pollution has reached dangerous levels. For people with breathing or heart ...

People who breathe polluted air experience changes within the brain regions that control emotions, and as a result, they may be more likely to develop anxiety and depression than those who breathe ...