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Air pollution increases the likelihood of people becoming frail in middle and old age, according to an international review of studies.People are living longer and, while…

Air pollution is affecting how well we sleep, according to the findings of an international evidence review. Dr Junxin Li, of the Johns Hopkins University School…

This article is part of “Innovations In: Alzheimer’s Disease” an editorially independent special report that was produced with financial support from Eisai.About four years ago Clifford…

Western wildfires are producing massive plumes of smoke that have, in recent years, clouded eastern skies. But a new study finds that, paradoxically, heat from fires…

Your article (Millions of Britons face higher risk of heart failure due to dirty air, study suggests, 8 September) is just the latest reminder that toxic…

A jump in greenhouse gas pollution in the US helped push global emissions higher in the first half of this year. This could be an omen…

Ed Miliband has been accused by MPs of subsidising dangerous and polluting “supersized status symbols” as his department hands grants to people who buy electric SUVs.The…

Millions of Britons face a higher risk of stroke or heart failure because of dirty air where they live.People living in areas of the UK with…

Efforts to improve the climate could reduce the number of deaths caused by air pollution in the US by about 6,000 people a year by 2030,…

Fine-particulate air pollution can drive devastating forms of dementia by triggering the formation of toxic clumps of protein that destroy nerve cells as they spread through…