The Latest Breaking News on Pollution

Paris (AFP) - More than 90 percent of harmful air pollution in the Middle East and parts of North Africa comes from fossil fuels, according to research Thursday that showed the region "permanently exceeded" dangerous air quality levels.

Research shows hospital admissions are linked to even short-term exposure, with boys more at risk than girls

Households are being asked to avoid the use of solid fuel when possible

Fine particulate air pollution increased cardiac arrhythmias in teens.

A new study has upended the way researchers think about how air pollution causes lung cancer. The work cracks open a whole new way of thinking about certain cancers and how to treat and even prevent them. It also suggests environmental agencies may have good reason to impose much stricter…

Concern as heart arrhythmias appear to be triggered even when air pollution within quality limits

As a child swimming off the coast of south Devon in the 1960s, I believed the warm water passing through my legs was the Gulf Stream current. Now, as an adult, I realise it was actually raw sewage being discharged into the ocean.

The Mayor of London is publishing a book on climate action inspired by his asthma diagnosis at age 43

Geneva (AFP) - More frequent and intense heatwaves and wildfires driven by climate change are expected to worsen the quality of the air we breathe, harming human health and ecosystems, the UN warned Wednesday.

Air pollution hits women harder than men, according to a new study.

On the morning news, you see the weather forecast is for high heat, and there is an “excessive heat watch” for later in the week. You were hoping the weather would cool down, but yet another heat wave is threatening human health and increasing the chance of wildfires. On top…