As a retired nurse practitioner, I know that clean air is important for all of us. It is especially important for me because I have a medical condition that is aggravated when Salt Lake City has ...

The authors add, “In this large national study of older adults, we found that long-term exposure to fine particulate air pollution was associated with a higher risk of Alzheimer’s disease, largely ...

Breathing polluted air may do more than harm your lungs — it could also increase your risk of Alzheimer’s disease. In a sweeping study of nearly 28 million older Americans, researchers found that long ...

The threat posed by air pollution is more significant than many people may realize. According to the World Health Organization, almost 99 percent of the global population breathes air that exceeds ...

Raj Fadadu was still in medical school on the day the sky turned orange. "I remember waking up for my class ... I was like, 'Oh, is this just a really intense sunrise? But no, the entire sky was just ...

A new report on air quality across the United States offered a cloudy prognosis on the long-term health of about 156 million residents who live in areas that received an "F" in smog and soot pollution ...

Less commonly, lung cancer can also be a result of air pollution — the addition of harmful substances into the air. In 2013, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) of the World Health ...

Pittsburgh's Action News 4 spoke with the CEO of a Texas company who has an idea to take some pollution out of steel mills and turn it into profit.In its first-generation technology, CarbonFree sucks ...

James Gallagher is one of the first people in the world to see how their body has suffered as a result of breathing in air pollution I feel contaminated. I'm in a laboratory staring at my blood under ...

Think of it as Google Maps for your lungs. In 64 California communities, including more than a dozen in the Inland Empire, cars resembling the self-driven Waymo rideshare vehicles are driving precise ...