Fine particulate matter, the invisible haze of particles smaller than 2.5 microns that drifts from traffic, industry, and wildfire smoke, has long been linked to respiratory and cardiovascular ...

Over the last two decades, the scientific community has made rapid strides in understanding climate change and air pollution—but progress on their combined effects remains limited. Traditional models ...

Outdoor air pollution is estimated to contribute to more than 100,000 premature deaths in the United States each year, according to the National Weather Service. Accurate air quality ...

A large Chinese research team has developed an air quality model called EPICC (Emission and atmospheric Processes Integrated and Coupled Community Model) that demonstrates improved accuracy in its ...

As wildfire seasons intensify and air pollution continues to threaten public health, geographers are turning to new generations of artificial intelligence models to understand how environmental ...

Heatwaves and wildfires combined with human-caused emissions this year combined to expose one third of the world's population to extremely high levels of ozone pollution, a European Union report said ...

Climate models have often treated tropical forests as a major brake on carbon pollution. New findings from an aircraft-based research campaign indicate that these forests may be removing far less ...

Although the effects of air pollution on respiratory diseases are well established, its effects on cardiometabolic health are often overlooked. This population-based European cohort study led by the ...