While braking in your car may protect you from accidents and save your life, it could actually be harmful to your health in other ways, new research has found. Particles released into the air as ...

Smoke permeates everything and impacts everyone. The visible stew of carbon and particulates typically from emission sources travels in the air, shrouds buildings, suffocates birds, and penetrates ...

A new study has measured the levels of indoor air pollution emitted by everyday home appliances, revealing which ones you ...

It's tough not to run across an article linking – by association – air pollution with adverse health effects. Over time scientists have focused more of their research on one component of our air: ...

Professor and Chair, Department of Public Health Science and Community Medicine, University of Connecticut The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced a new standard for protecting the ...

In recent years, there has been rising concern that tiny particles known as microplastics are showing up basically everywhere on Earth, from polar ice to soil, drinking water, and food. Formed when ...

Long-term exposure to specific particulate matter components, such as PM2.5, including sulphate, ammonium, elemental carbon, ...

Invisible plastics in the air are infiltrating our bodies and cities. Scientists reveal the urgent health dangers and outline bold solutions for a cleaner, safer future. Study: Air pollution and its ...

Plastics are not inert: they gradually break into fragments over time, forming micro- and then nanoplastics (i.e., particles ...

Air pollution, particularly fine particulate matter (PM2.5), poses a major threat to our lungs, leading to health issues like asthma and lung cancer. However, recent research suggests that vitamin C, ...