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

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 ...

A study shows for the first time the relationship between this disease and the damage caused to DNA by breathing pollution. One-quarter of lung cancer cases occur in people who have never smoked. What ...

The report by the American Lung Association argues community-based air quality monitoring reveals pollution patterns ...

Air quality in America — and in most places around the world — is measured by three yardsticks, each used by the American Lung Association’s “State of the Air” report and, in some cases, by the WHO: 1 ...

Hot weather, humidity, and pollution are some of the major factors that affect the lungs in summer. Rising temperature puts strain on the lungs, which can make breathing more difficult than usual.

EDF’s Air Tracker combines air pollution data and weather forecasting to reveal what pollutants are in the air and where they may be coming from.

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 ...

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 ...