Lung cancer cases are on the rise in non-smokers around the world, and air pollution could be an insidious, contributing ...

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 ...

An international study found that air pollution leads to more cancer-related genetic changes than secondhand smoke.

The climate science community has long known about super pollutants. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has ...

The most effective filters have what’s called high-efficiency particulate air certification. Better known as HEPA filters, ...

UC San Diego study of global lung cancer shows mutations that lead to cancer are common in people who live in cities with bad air pollution. But cancer mutations are quite close to normal among ...

Air pollution is a mix of particles and gases that can reach harmful concentrations both ... mold, pollen, methane, and carbon dioxide are a just few examples of common pollutants. In the ...

Air pollution monitors at the Rutgers PAM Site, (Photochemical Assessment Monitoring, located on Rutgers Horticulture Research Farm 3 in East Brunswick, N.J. Wednesday, September, 11, 2024.

A new study reveals that air pollution, traditional herbal medicines and other environmental exposures are linked to genetic ...

The specific type of pollution at the forefront of this study, published in Nature Communications, is particulate matter (PM) air pollution. PM air pollution is a mixture of solid particulates and ...

For example, she said rural communities may want to focus on agricultural pollution whereas those in colder parts of the state may want to find wood stove alternatives to heat homes, and those ...