At the recent French-Speaking Pneumology Congress held in Marseille, France, between January 24 and 26, 2025, Olivier Brun, a pulmonologist at the Hospital Center of Perpignan in Perpignan, France, ...

Air pollution is a global health concern, with over 90% of the world's population breathing air that exceeds World Health Organization safety standards. Fine and coarse particulate matter are ...

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 ...

Smog from wildfires sweeping the nation has left tens of millions more Americans to breathe toxic air even as man-made forms of pollution fall, according to a new study released Wednesday. The ...

A new report on air quality across the United States offered a cloudy prognosis on the long-term health of about 156 million residents who live in areas that received an "F" in smog and soot pollution ...

Tracy J. Wholf is a senior coordinating producer of climate and environmental coverage for CBS News and Stations, based in New York. When the Environmental Protection Agency was formed in 1970, its ...

University of Utah Health researchers have linked particulate matter (PM2.5) air pollution with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH)—bleeding within the brain caused by a ruptured aneurysm.

ROANOKE, Va. – Nearly half of the U.S. population is now living with unhealthy levels of air pollution. The primary culprits are extreme heat, persistent droughts, and increasingly frequent wildfires.

These findings are consistent with previous studies suggesting that air pollution may be associated with changes in the functional connectivity of brain networks, particularly in children. However, it ...