From diesel fumes to city smog, the particles we breathe may be weakening hair follicles. Here’s what lab studies and large ...

Air pollution can increase the risk of serious bacterial infections, with the timing and severity depending on the strain ...

A UK-led study reveals a link between increased air pollution and more frequent night-time coughing, which can lead to ...

Heat waves and wildfires combined with human-caused emissions this year to expose one-third of the world's population to ...

Delhi and its surrounding areas are experiencing severe air pollution with AQI levels crossing the hazardous 400 mark. This smoke-filled air is causing many respiratory problems to people including ...

Martha Cota awakened one morning to find her infant son, Jose Miguel, gasping for air, his lips and the skin under his fingernails blue from lack of oxygen. Terrified, she rushed him to her local ...

There's something invisible that can put us in an early grave. And I’m not talking about sentient AI, but something much more ubiquitous and real. While AI doomers predict the existential risk that ...

The prevalence of asthma rose by about 75 percent overall between 1980 and 1996, and by nearly a factor of two in children up to 17 years of age.[1] Prevalence seems to have leveled off since then.[2] ...

Air pollution is raising fresh questions about women's reproductive health, with Delhi-NCR experts examining whether ...

A research team from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology has shown in a new study that ants returning from habitats affected by air pollution are attacked when they re-enter the colony. The ...