Dec. 18, 2024 — Tires and degrading garbage shed tiny pieces of plastic into the air, creating a form of air pollution that researchers suspect may be causing respiratory and other ...

Air pollution is the biggest environmental health risk of our time. It also exacerbates climate change, causes economic losses, and reduces agricultural productivity. It knows no borders ...

Dec. 17, 2024 — New technology could remotely identify various types of plastics, offering a valuable tool for future monitoring and analysis of oceanic plastic pollution. A new hyperspectral ...

And a separate set of EEA data shows that nearly 75 per cent of Europe’s ecosystems are also exposed to damaging levels of air pollution. For Europeans, air pollution is the top environmental ...

Boston College’s Global Observatory on Planetary Health is first to reveal town-by-town pollution levels and health impacts, including 2,780 deaths in 2019 Air pollution remains a silent killer in ...

Several schools in Delhi close during winter for at least two weeks because of high air pollution levels. Every winter, widespread crop burning in north India and weather conditions add to the ...

Pollution-related deaths numbered 1.67 million in 2019, according to a new report led by Boston College researchers. Economic losses were in the billions. Pollution takes many forms in India, ...

My colleagues and I wanted to examine how exposure to air pollution may lead to deaths in the world's most populated and highly polluted country—India. What we saw was alarming. In a study ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A man with a gas mask attends a protest organized by the Green Humane City initiative, demanding effective ...

“Those interested in optimizing ... performance should consider the effect of air pollution.” PROVIDENCE — Poor air quality can contribute to slower average finish times for marathon ...

But in the interim, Beijing has managed to cut its pollution level by one-third with the most significant fall spanning between 2013 and 2017 (Chart 1). To be sure, Beijing’s pollution control ...