During the last pre-monsoon months, the air quality index (AQI) of Kathmandu was recorded to be alarmingly high with an ...

Delhi ’s government has been forced to reverse a controversial plan to effectively ban older vehicles from city roads after public backlash and concerns over how the policy would be implemented.

New research indicates that fine particulate matter in the air may contribute to diffuse myocardial fibrosis, a form of ...

Los Angeles and much of Southern California were met with a regional air quality alert on Saturday, following July 4th ...

A major health survey links air pollution, especially PM2.5, to 13% premature births and 17% low birth weight cases in India, ...

It is a leading driver of heart disease and stroke, lung cancer, and respiratory infections the world over. Exposure to such pollution, the most deadly of which scientists call PM2.5, is the sixth ...

Lung cancer among never-smokers is rising worldwide. In one U.S. study of 12,000 lung cancer patients, the share of people who didn’t smoke rose from 8 to 15 percent over twenty years. A British ...

Breathing polluted air—even at levels considered “safe”—may quietly damage your heart. A new study using advanced MRI scans found that people exposed to more air pollution showed early signs of ...

Ingleside residents are resisting a “charm offensive” as Europe’s largest gas user plans a new facility in their small ...

Research from the NIH’s National Cancer Institute, an agency beleaguered by funding cuts and censorship, finds that ...

A new study reveals that air pollution, traditional herbal medicines and other environmental exposures are linked to genetic ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to abandon landmark regulations limiting airborne mercury and greenhouse ...