Protect your heart during pollution season with these tips: monitor blood pressure, stay hydrated, track air quality, and ...

Whatever the causes of the smog, by one ranking Delhi was not just the most polluted city in the world, but “nearly five ...

Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai on Tuesday urged the Central government to intervene, requesting Prime Minister Narendra ...

The World Heath Organisation recommends that the annual average level of the PM2.5 pollutant should not exceed 5 μg/m3.

While the air quality index is a useful tool, it has its limitations. There’s still a greater need for robust monitoring to ...

Doctors advise use of N95 masks and air purifiers, eating a healthy mix of fruits and vegetables, and getting flu and ...

In response to the latest air pollution crisis, the Punjab government has closed schools, shifted classes online, and imposed ...

The immune system tries to expel the pollutants by causing inflammation. But some pollutants succeed in evading the cilia and manage to reach the pulmonary air sacs. This defence mechanism may adverse ...

Brisa Aschebrook-Kilfoy, Associate Professor of Family Medicine at UChicago, is an expert in conducting environmental exposure assessments. She is actively leading efforts to build resources to study ...

You know that feeling you get when you take a breath of fresh air in nature? There may be more to it than a simple lack of ...

Cases of the autoimmune skin condition eczema appear to rise in areas most plagued by air pollution, new research show ...

Living in places with more air pollution raises the risk of eczema, a chronic condition that causes dry, itchy and inflamed ...