The smaller particles could in fact be more harmful as they can get through the body's natural defenses and cause significant health problems.

A report from the air quality monitoring database, IQAir, found that just 17 per cent of cities meet the World Health Organisation's (WHO's) air pollution guidelines. As this map reveals, 91 per ...

Only 13 of the world’s countries and territories had “healthy” air quality last year, according to a new report, as air pollution surged to alarming levels in 2022. CNN values your feedback 1.

The air in Paris, or any other location, changes through time. Air quality is shaped by both human and natural activities that create air pollution, as well as by natural processes like wind and ...

Air-quality readings like the ones expected across parts of New York State on Wednesday would not be seen as particular cause for alarm in some parts of the world.

The number of heart condition-related deaths attributed to air pollution between 2010 and 2019 increased in some places by as much as 27%, and almost 70% of the 4.2 million outdoor air pollution ...

In most of my years there, the pollution was terrible, especially in winter, although we didn't have ways to measure it. The air had an acrid, sulfurous smell, and soot was everywhere.

Nearly the entire world is breathing dirty air, as a shocking map reveals that just 17 per cent of the world's cities meet air pollution guidelines.

California and Oregon are among the U.S. hotspots for dangerous submicron (PM1) air pollution—those with particles less than a micron, or a millionth of a meter wide—according to new research ...