In 2008, the Chinese government conducted one of the largest real-time environmental experiments ever undertaken: In order to get air quality up to par for the summer Olympics in Beijing--in of ...

In Malaysia, the impact attributed to fossil fuel-related air pollution ranges anywhere from US$2.8 to US$6.7 billion (RM11.7 billion to RM28 billion) a year, with 10,000 premature deaths – also ...

Chronic air pollution cuts average global life expectancy by more than two years per person, a study published on Tuesday showed, an impact comparable to that of smoking and far worse than HIV ...

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): Lockdowns and movement restrictions have led to blue skies in some parts of South-east Asia, giving residents a respite from air pollution.

Yet, as countries race to develop a coronavirus vaccine, another everyday killer continues to threaten billions of people worldwide: air pollution. New data from the Air Quality Life Index, which ...

Long-term exposure to air pollution, especially ground-level ozone, is like smoking about a pack of cigarettes a day for many years, a new study says, and like smoking, it can can lead to emphysema.

The same part of Malaysia was hit by toxic air pollution in March, making more ... he said it was not linked to a previous pollution case in March which saw 111 schools shut and thousands of ...

Now, according to a new study in Nature Communications, there is another, particularly pernicious cause that may account for up to 39.7% of stillbirths in low- and middle-income countries: air ...

Long-term exposure to air pollution, especially ground-level ozone, is like smoking about a pack of cigarettes a day for many years, a new study says, and like smoking, it can can lead to emphysema.