More than 131 million people live in places with unhealthy air quality, according to the American Lung Association's 2024 State of Air report. This is an increase of 11.7 million people from the ...

CHICAGO, April 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the American Lung Association released its 27th annual "State of the Air" report, which finds that nearly half of the children in the U.S. are breathing ...

March 1, 2024—Early life exposure to air pollution may increase the risk of developing asthma by early or middle childhood—especially among socioeconomically disadvantaged children, according to a new ...

Air pollution contributes to the death of hundreds of thousands of children under 5 worldwide every year; the majority of those deaths are linked to indoor air pollution. In Vietnam, a country plagued ...

(Reuters Health) - Doctors have long predicted that less air pollution will produce healthier lungs. Now a first-of-its-kind study of 2,120 children in southern California has documented dramatically ...

Pollution from traffic, farming and wood stoves may have a negative effect on children's cognitive development, according to a new study published in Environment International on Danish students' ...

Understand how air pollution worsens childhood asthma and discover actionable steps to safeguard your child’s health in a changing climate. Air pollution from car and truck exhaust, coal and gas-fired ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On New Year's Day, several people messaged me to ask if I had noticed how bad the air quality was in Phoenix after the previous ...

Nearly half of America’s children — 46%, which is 33.5 million — live in areas with air pollution levels that can pose a health risk, according to the latest American Lung Association “State of the ...

Outdoor air pollution from power plants, fires and cars continues to degrade human, animal and environmental health around the globe. New research shows that even pollution levels that are below ...

American Lung Association's "State of the Air" report finds 33.5 million children live in areas with poor air quality CHICAGO, April 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the American Lung Association ...