Air pollution might protect against the most dangerous type of skin cancer, melanoma, a new study finds. However, it's crucial to approach these results with caution and consider the broader context of air pollution's effects on human health.

The Thai government has ordered a crackdown on farmers flouting a ban on crop burning, as pollution in Bangkok spiked on Friday a week after toxic air forced hundreds of schools to close.

Dr Lancelot Pinto, consultant pulmonologist and epidemiologist at the P.D.Hinduja Hospital and Medical Research Centre, sheds light on effects of poor air quality and what early warning signs we must pay attention to.

Across Bangkok, schools have been closed this week, as dangerously high levels of air pollution hit the Thai capital.

A limestone plant in Giles county has been ordered to pay $14,007 by the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality.

Low levels of traffic-related air pollution harms the liver and may raise the risk of metabolic-associated fatty liver disease, a new study in mice suggests.

Experts are starting to warn against air pollution, urging global leaders to act quickly before health concerns take more lives

Thai authorities have made travel by public transport in Bangkok free for a week, the latest tactic to try to tackle soaring levels of air pollution that have already seen hundreds of schools closed and employees working from home.

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“You have to be pretty dang healthy to be able to run (across) a marathon finish line,” Braun said. “If air pollution is having an effect on (marathon runners), it shows that really, there's no limit to who is susceptible to the effects of air pollution.”

Exposure to traffic-related air pollution (TRAP) is associated with depression in women, possibly via reproductive

Shemsi Gara operated a giant digger in a Kosovo coal mine, churning up toxic dust that covered his face and got into his airways. Home life wasn't much better: the power plants that the mine supplies constantly spew fumes over his village.