Scientists believe they have discovered the first examples of air pollution traveling through the lungs of pregnant women and into their placentas, potentially reaching their fetuses. The study, ...

Summary In today’s clean environment, it is challenging to improve air quality enough to detect associated long-term changes in public health. For example, 167 New Yorkers died each day in 2020. For a ...

Air in the U.S. has gotten cleaner for decades, adding years to people's lives and preventing millions of asthma attacks, but nearly half of Americans still live with unhealthy air pollution, a new ...

Pollution is a public health concern, and is considered to be any harmful material introduced to the environment. Many materials can cause such harm and are referred to as pollutants. Pollutants are ...

More people across the United States – nearly 40% – are living in places with unhealthy levels of polluted air, according to a new report from the American Lung Association. The number of people ...

Air pollution is expensive. It causes disease, which results in health care costs. It causes people to miss work because they are sick, disabled, or need to care for an afflicted family member. And it ...