Air Pollution

By now we all know how devastating a heavy smoking habit can be for our overall health, but the air wafting around your neighborhood might not be all that much better. A new study focusing on the air quality of major cities, and the dangers of specific air po…

(CNN)Long-term exposure to air pollution, especially ground-level ozone, is like smoking about a pack of cigarettes a day for many years, a new study says, and like smoking, it can can lead to emphysema. The study, published Tuesday in the medical journal JA…

Meaning microplastics are traveling through the very air we breathe. Veuers Tony Spitz has the details. Buzz60 We've polluted the deepest oceans with plastic trash, now it's the Arctic's turn: Blown by the wind, "microplastics" which are tiny shreds of plas…

The tribunal also directed the CPCB and state pollution control boards to ensure assessment and installation of the requisite number of real time online continuous Ambient Air Quality Monitoring systems within six months. (Source: File) Expressing disapprova…

—In this video Paul Andersen explains how air pollution is any chemicals in the atmosphere that negatively affect human health. Primary pollutants (like CO, VOCs, NOx, SO2, PM, and Lead) as well as secondary pollutants (like Ozone, nitric acid, and sulfuric a…

Air pollution, especially one type that is worsening with global warming, can accelerate lung disease as quickly as smoking a pack of cigarettes a day, new research released Tuesday shows. The study published on August 13 in the journal JAMA by researchers a…

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Burning of paddy crop residue, one of the major causes of air pollution, declined by 41 per cent last year over 2016-level in Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi-NCR with the help of a 1,151 crore central scheme, the government said on Tuesday. Indian …

Asthma among children close to 67,000 new cases is hitting home in 18 European countries because of small particulates contaminating the air, according to a new report. But a number of those cases could be prevented yearly if the particulates were reduced to …

If European countries complied with current World Health Organization air quality guidelines, it could prevent up to 11% of new childhood asthma cases each year, according to a new study. Overall, 33% of new asthma cases in the 18 European countries research…