Air pollution that spews from climate change-fueled wildfires, fossil fuel-burning power plants, artificial intelligence-generating data centers and gas-guzzling cars may be making you forgetful, a new study shows.
People with the highest levels of exposure to the microscopic particles over nearly 20 years scored lower on memory tests asking them to remember facts, words and general knowledge than others exposed to lower levels of pollution, researchers at U.C. Davis Health and the health care company Kaiser Permanente said Wednesday.
