Air pollution kills 100 children younger than age five every day in East Asia and the Pacific, The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said in a new report on Thursday. Air pollution, the “silent ...
The World Health Organization reports more than 90% of children breathe air so polluted that it puts their health at risk.
Nobody is safe from air pollution, the United Nations warned on World Environment Day last year, with nine out of 10 people on the planet now breathing polluted air. This has led to a growing ...
People's ability to interpret emotions or focus on performing a task is reduced by short-term exposure to particulate matter ...
Air pollution is linked to the daily deaths of over 100 children under five in East Asia and the Pacific, according to a ...
each year around 300 000 people in Europe die prematurely due to air pollution. In 2021, 97% of the people living in urban areas was exposed to concentrations of fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 - the ...
In a study of 5,800 mother-child pairs, pre-pregnancy air pollution exposure was linked to higher BMI and obesity risks in children up to age 2. Increased exposure to air pollution in the months ...
Wildfires contribute to harmful fine particle pollution, which is at levels bad for human health in the area even before the wildfires. The American Lung Association’s State of the Air report ...
Colorado suffers from a serious and growing air quality problem ... Each summer, kids in Colorado suffer an estimated 32,000 asthma attacks linked to the oil and gas industry’s smog pollution, and the ...