Air Pollution

Drivers and passengers can inhale significantly lower levels of air pollution by setting their vehicle's ventilation systems more effectively and taking a 'cleaner' route to their destination, a new study reveals. Road transport emissions are major source of urban air pollution - nitrogen oxides (NOx) and particulate matter (PM) coming…

Scientists have found that air pollution in the winter is associated with more hospitalisations for all strokes in Dublin. The study, led by researchers from RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences, is published in the current edition of Cerebrovascular Diseases. During winter months in Ireland, particularly in Dublin, higher…

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), air pollution kills an estimated seven million people worldwide every year and nine out of 10 people breathe air with high levels of pollutants.In a study published by the Science of the Total Environment journal, a global team of researchers led by Surrey’s…

Coronavirus H. Jesse Smith See allHide authors and affiliations Science  07 Aug 2020:Vol. 369, Issue 6504, pp. 639DOI: 10.1126/science.369.6504.639-d Read More

Air pollution epidemicThe lockdown enforced in most cities in China in response to the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) resulted in the virtual absence of motor vehicle traffic and sharply reduced manufacturing activity for several weeks. Le et al. report some of the anticipated and unanticipated…

Car users from the world's least affluent cities are exposed to a disproportionate amount of in-car air pollution because they rely heavily on opening their windows for ventilation, finds a first of its kind study from the University of Surrey. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), air pollution kills…

Economist Jay Shimshack said the gaps between the most and the least polluted places are falling over time. Credit: Dan Addison, University Communications Fine particle air pollution in the United States has decreased sharply over the past 40 years, but communities that were polluted four decades ago remain polluted today,…

Fine particulate air pollution is referred to as PM2.5 because the particles are less than 2.5 microns in diameter – 40 times smaller than a grain of sand. Credit: Washington department of Ecology Air pollution contributes to as many as 9 million premature deaths worldwide each year—twice as many as…

While the level of fine particulate air pollution has declined considerably over the last several decades, a new study finds that its distribution has remained largely unchanged. According to the results, the most and least polluted U.S. neighborhoods in 1981 remained the most and least polluted more than 30 years…

The finding comes as the Trump administration has been rolling back clean air regulationsBay Bridge is obscured as smoke from the Camp Fire fills the air in San Francisco, Calif., on November 15, 2018. Credit: Michael Short Getty Images As California’s Camp Fire raged in 2018, soot and other pollution filled…