For most of my professional life I have thought about air pollution through the organs I know best. As a heart and lung surgeon, I spent decades studying how polluted air damages lungs, damages the ...

Emissions from data centers can cause breathing issues and premature deaths for those living nearby, according to a new report.

A United Nations special rapporteur warned Friday that air pollution is contributing to widespread human rights violations worldwide, calling on governments to take urgent action to reduce pollution ...

A new study published in The Lancet Global Health reveals a previously underappreciated tension at the heart of international climate negotiations: policies designed to protect developing countries ...

A newly identified threshold for exposure to particulate matter could help public health officials base air-quality warnings on the cardiovascular health risks associated with short-term exposure to ...

Fossil fuel air pollution already causes 91,000 premature U.S. deaths each year, according to a recent study. A new Princeton-led study finds that ambitious climate policies could prevent 6,000 deaths ...

Gas heating in buildings leads to harmful air pollution. But creating policies to reduce that pollution is not easy.

San Francisco becomes the first U.S. city to achieve major reductions in PM2.5 and NO₂ pollutants.

Global data show us that the impacts are far from marginal. The 2019 Global Burden of Disease analysis ranked hypertension as ...

Researchers argue that exposure to fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) may affect cognitive function and intelligence, potentially causing large population-level losses in global IQ. Using ...

Health insurance premiums in India, particularly in big cities like the capital, New Delhi, could become more expensive as insurers consider the impact of air pollution on policy pricing. Discussions ...

BAQ 2026, bringing policymakers, scientists and environmental experts from across the world to address the region’s air ...