BILLINGS, Mont. -- Wildfire smoke accounted for up to half of all health-damaging small particle air pollution in the western U.S. in recent years as warming temperatures fueled more destructive ...

The report by the American Lung Association argues community-based air quality monitoring reveals pollution patterns ...

A new study estimates that chronic exposure to PM2.5 from wildfire smoke caused an average of 24,100 deaths per year in the U.S. from 2006–2020. Researchers found mortality increased with higher smoke ...

For most of my professional life I have thought about air pollution through the organs I know best. As a heart and lung surgeon, I spent decades studying how polluted air damages lungs, damages the ...

Short-term air pollution from the 2023 Canadian wildfire smoke may have raised stroke rates and severity in New Jersey, a new study reports.

With many Indian cities, including Delhi–NCR and nearby urban centres, battling severe air pollution, some people argue, "If we're already inhaling bad air, what's the harm in smoking a cigarette?" ...

American Lung Association report focuses on improving community-based air monitoring in high pollution areas; the PurpleAirs in Schools Program in Montana serves as potential blueprint for other commu ...

Smoke from burning garbage at the Matuail and Amin Bazar landfills often blankets Dhaka’s sky, underscoring how poor waste ...