Millions of people die prematurely every year from diseases and cancer caused by air pollution. The first line of defense against this carnage is ambient air quality standards. Yet, according to ...

Smoke from wildfires in Canada has drifted into the U.S., prompting air quality alerts for Americans as it continues to spread. But when officials and forecasters classify a city's air as "unhealthy" ...

LOS ANGELES (CNS) -- Los Angeles has the most polluted air out of more than 2,400 U.S. cities analyzed in a report released Tuesday by an air-quality monitoring firm, despite the city showing 6% ...

Diwali, reaching hazardous levels and posing severe health risks. A viral video captured a man experiencing severe breathing ...

More than 8 million people worldwide die each year from breathing polluted air containing particles from fossil fuel emissions — a significantly higher number than researchers previously believed. The ...

New Jerseyans continue to breathe some of the nation’s worst air — partly due to emissions from refineries, power plants, car traffic and wildfires. But experts told NJ Advance Media there’s also a ...