Exposure to wildfire smoke increases the odds of being diagnosed with dementia even more than exposure to other forms of air pollution, according to a landmark study of more than 1.2 million ...

Pollution has become a global health crisis, with its effects being felt across all age groups, especially in urban and industrialised areas. It leads to both short-term and long-term health problems, ...

Air and surface water are basics for human survival 1,2. The rapid urbanisation and industrialisation in the past century came at the price of environmental deterioration 3, which in turn, caused ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have found that women who were exposed to higher levels of nitrogen dioxide and coarse particulate matter — two ...

A new series published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology highlights how pollution, in all its forms, is a greater health threat than that of war, terrorism, malaria, HIV, ...

When Japan announced plans to release wastewater stored at the deactivated Fukushima power plant into the ocean over the summer, various countries such as China and South Korea reacted with concern ...

It’s no secret that air pollution is tied to lung disease and cancer, but a new study sheds light on the significant role of pollution when it comes to head and neck cancer. Mass General Brigham ...

Air pollution is a major threat to health and the dangers are particularly acute in low- and middle-income countries where levels of exposure tend to be high and adaptation resources are often limited ...

TOPSHOT - Indian schoolchildren cover their faces as they walk to school amid heavy smog in New Delhi on November 8, 2017. Delhi shut all primary schools on November 8 as pollution levels hit nearly ...

Exposure to air and noise pollution early in life may be linked to several common mental health problems in adolescence and early adulthood, according to a longitudinal birth cohort study. Similarly, ...

Exposure to unhealthy levels of air pollution during pregnancy may prolong postpartum depression symptoms in new mothers, according to new research. A team of researchers from the University of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wildfire smoke smothered Los Angeles in September 2020. A landmark new study finds that it increases dementia diagnoses much more ...