Outdoor air pollution from power plants, fires and cars continues to degrade human, animal and environmental health around the globe. New research shows that even pollution levels that are below ...

Air pollution is considered by some to be the "greatest external threat" to life expectancy, and pollution levels only continue to increase as climate change worsens. While breathing in particulates ...

In 2012, Deborah Cory-Slechta at the University of Rochester, New York, received a “bucket of brains”. A colleague had been studying how air pollution around the university harms the hearts and lungs ...

People with higher exposure to traffic-related air pollution were more likely to have high amounts of amyloid plaques in their brains associated with Alzheimer's disease after death, according to a ...

A groundbreaking new study has found that air pollution and climate stress could be key risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease ...