A new report by the American Lung Association gave California's Bay Area failing grades in a number of critical air quality metrics, raising alarms for residents who may face elevated risks of heart ...

The Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), with support from the Clean Air Fund, has released a global report, Clean air in cancer control: An overview of the evidence, presenting data on the ...

Despite efforts to reduce air pollution, half of the world’s population is being exposed to increased air pollution. A study carried out with WHO says that air pollution is a major and increasing ...

The American Lung Association's annual report highlights the health risks of air pollution, with nearly half of U.S. children ...

Air pollution has moved ahead of tobacco and poor diet as leading risk factors for death worldwide, the report said. Air pollution is the second-leading global risk factor for death, according to the ...

Air pollution is causing people in the UK to get chronic illnesses like dementia and Parkinson’s earlier, a new study has ...

A new study estimates that chronic exposure to PM2.5 from wildfire smoke caused an average of 24,100 deaths per year in the U.S. from 2006–2020. Researchers found mortality increased with higher smoke ...

In 2010 the Global Burden of Disease Study was released, an ambitious attempt to describe the global distribution and causes of a wide array of major diseases, injuries, and health risk factors. Those ...

The European Environment Agency (EEA) has named the culprit responsible for the deaths of almost half a million people in 2021 — and it's found in the very air we breathe. Researchers from the EEA ...

The American Lung Assn.'s 2026 State of the Air report again graded L.A. as having some of the worst air quality in the ...