Pre-industrial pollution from coal smoke and wood-burning in regions like the southeastern U.S. and UK may have made the air ...

Moving to more polluted areas was associated with an increase in body mass index, according to an analysis of more than 46,000 children and adolescents living in Catalonia. A large natural experiment ...

An ambitious attempt by the Indian government to combat Delhi’s hazardous air pollution by inducing artificial rain has failed to trigger any precipitation, prompting researchers to question why the ...

The troubling reality is that nearly half of all kids (46% of people under the age of 18) are living in places with unhealthy ...

Calderón-Garcidueñas, today head of the Environmental Neuroprevention Laboratory at the University of Montana, points out that the damaged brains she documented through neuroimaging in young dogs and ...

Despite high hopes and a hefty budget, Delhi’s much-publicised cloud seeding experiment seems to have gone dry, quite literally. The capital witnessed little to no rainfall after three trial runs, ...

A new report on air quality across the United States offered a cloudy prognosis on the long-term health of about 156 million residents who live in areas that received an "F" in smog and soot pollution ...

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Almost half of everyone who lives in the United States breathes unhealthy levels of air pollution, according to the American Lung Association’s annual State of the Air report, released Wednesday.