Everyone loves a breath of fresh air. Unfortunately, too often our air is anything but fresh. While air quality varies ...

Short-term exposure to air pollution can cloud one’s judgment ... with significant societal and economic implications in a high-tech world reliant on cognitive excellence,” co-author Francis Pope from ...

It also causes economic impacts. According to the World Bank, in 2019, air pollution from PM2.5 led to premature deaths and illnesses that cost East Asia and the Pacific 9.3% of its GDP, amounting to ...

Air pollution kills 100 children younger than age five every day in East Asia and the Pacific, UNICEF said in a new report on Thursday. Air pollution, the “silent killer,” reaches its highest ...

Buildings shrouded in smog in Bangkok. Citizens were advised to work from home last month due to air pollution - Valeria Mongelli/Bloomberg ...

Home to over two billion people who breathe air that is considered unsafe by the WHO, nine of the world’s 10 cities ... in 1998 on control and prevention of air pollution, to the Kathmandu ...

World Cancer Day 2025: From diet to sexual behaviours ... consult your doctor and don't fall for these myths. Yes, air pollution can cause skin breakouts, rashes, and irritation, as well as ...

PARIS – Air pollution is fuelling a rise in the commonest ... published in the Lancet Respiratory Medicine journal on World Cancer Day. Most of them were men but there was a growing share ...

Between 30% and 50% of cancer deaths could be prevented by modifying or avoiding key risk factors and implementing existing evidence-based prevention strategies, according to the World Health ...

We're also capturing fine sediment particulates." In addition to the unseeable levels of pollutants, there is also blatant pollution of concern. Stiver explained: "We see chunks of concrete, we see ...