Boston College’s Global Observatory on Planetary Health is first to reveal town-by-town pollution levels and health impacts, including 2,780 deaths in 2019 Air pollution remains a silent killer in ...

P EOPLE ARE dying for clean air. According to the most recent estimates from the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation ...

2025 — Air pollution contributes to nearly 7 million premature deaths each year, and its effects go far beyond the lungs. Breathing in wildfire smoke or automobile-related city smog doesn't just ...

Photo by Mark Katzman. Air pollution in India resulted in 1.67 million deaths in 2019—the largest pollution-related death toll in any country in the world—and also accounted for $36.8 billion in ...

The link between air pollution and cognition is clear, with evidence showing pollutants affect brain development and increase neurodegenerative disease risk.

Air pollution is a silent killer, contributing to hundreds of thousands of premature deaths annually and significantly diminishing the quality of life for countless more. The problem is systemic ...

Newer findings about how air pollution may addle a body—by worsening ... causal link between particulates and heart attacks and deaths.”) This is an attack not just on air-pollution research ...

Uganda has 1.4 million petrol-fuelled motorbikes in its public transport system that all need to go electric to reduce global warming and air pollution.

Air pollution is a major contributor to global ... In 2022, in terms of deaths attributable to diseases related to PM2.5 (particles of 2.5 μm), lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary ...

A new study from the Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet reveals that days with both high air pollution and extreme heat substantially raise the risk of death in Indian cities ...

A new study shows that even low levels of air pollution and traffic noise increase stroke risk, especially when combined.

The Union Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change claimed in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday that there is no definitive data “to establish a direct correlation of deaths including lung ...