Southeast Asian deaths linked to air pollution could rise by up to 10% by 2050, costing the region nearly $600 billion, even as overall pollution levels decrease, according to a new study published in ...

Air pollution has been linked to thousands of preventable deaths in the European Union, despite a “significant” improvement in air quality. A new report from the European Environment Agency (EEA) ...

Fossil fuel air pollution already causes 91,000 premature U.S. deaths each year, according to a recent study. A new Princeton-led study finds that ambitious climate policies could prevent 6,000 deaths ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Air pollution from gas and oil was tied to significant totals of premature death, childhood asthma and cancer.

Felicity Bradstock is a freelance writer specialising in Energy and Finance. She has a Master’s in International Development from the University of Birmingham, UK. A landmark study finds U.S. oil and ...

Air pollution has moved ahead of tobacco and poor diet as leading risk factors for death worldwide, the report said. Air pollution is the second-leading global risk factor for death, according to the ...

A new study says pollution of all types is killing 9 million people a year. About three-quarters of that is air pollution. The release of the study's findings on Tuesday reveals that overall pollution ...

According to a new report by the World Health Organization, a ir pollution is the cause of 7 million deaths a year worldwide, and is the single largest environmental health risk in the world today.

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 ...

Improving air quality -- in clean and dirty places -- could reduce pollution-related deaths worldwide by millions of people each year. That finding comes from a team of environmental engineering and ...