Despite the enormous public-health, social, and economic burden of pollution, this crisis is still not treated as a medical ...

Air pollution is the biggest contributor, linked to 6.5 million deaths in 2015, while water pollution (1.8 million deaths) and workplace-related pollution (0.8 million deaths) pose the next largest ...

The combustion of fossil fuels (coal, petroleum [oil], and natural gas) is the major source of both air pollution and the greenhouse-gas emissions driving climate change. The fetus, infant, and child ...

Breathing in polluted air could mean shortening your life, new research finds. Researchers from the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom studied the average human life expectancy worldwide ...

For example, if people in areas with higher pollution were also likely to get fatter between 1982 and 2000 when compared with people in lower pollution areas, researchers could mistake an effect of ...

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