Air pollution is slashing years from billions of people’s lives around the world and is a greater threat to life expectancy than smoking, HIV/AIDS or war, a report published Wednesday shows.

Ahead of the International Day of Clean Air, here’s a look at what causes air pollution, what it does to people and how the world can rein it in.

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 ...

About 1 in 4 people in the United States – more than 119 million residents – live with air pollution that can hurt their health and shorten their lives, according to a new report from the ...

Americans of color are dying and getting sick at increasing rates from air pollution linked to gas and oil, according to a new study.

Americans of color are dying and getting sick at increasing rates from air pollution linked to gas and oil, according to a new study.

Household air pollution still kills millions of people every year, even as exposure levels fall worldwide, a new study has found. In 2021, household air pollution – which occurs when people cook ...

A number of recent studies have drawn stronger connections between air pollution and serious health problems than previously understood, but there are several methods experts recommend individuals ...

Air pollution can also have indirect health effects because of its close link to climate change. Pollutants increase the amount of sunlight that reaches the earth, warming it, and warmer climates ...

But I also think air pollution points in the opposite direction, unfortunately, as a case study in normalization, since after all, 10 million people are dying annually and it hasn’t yet produced ...