While braking in your car may protect you from accidents and save your life, it could actually be harmful to your health in other ways, new research has found. Particles released into the air as ...

Large doses of vitamin C may provide our lungs with a degree of protection from the harmful effects of fine particles in the ...

Air quality is an important but often ignored part of staying healthy. Every breath we take can carry tiny particles and ...

Smoke permeates everything and impacts everyone. The visible stew of carbon and particulates typically from emission sources travels in the air, shrouds buildings, suffocates birds, and penetrates ...

A new study has measured the levels of indoor air pollution emitted by everyday home appliances, revealing which ones you ...

It's tough not to run across an article linking – by association – air pollution with adverse health effects. Over time scientists have focused more of their research on one component of our air: ...

Plastics are not inert: they gradually break into fragments over time, forming micro- and then nanoplastics (i.e., particles ...

Air pollution, particularly fine particulate matter (PM2.5), poses a major threat to our lungs, leading to health issues like asthma and lung cancer. However, recent research suggests that vitamin C, ...

Professor and Chair, Department of Public Health Science and Community Medicine, University of Connecticut The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced a new standard for protecting the ...

Scientists are increasingly alarmed by the airborne particles routinely released by power plants, petrochemical companies, motor vehicles, concrete plants and other sources. Their concerns are so ...