More Than a Third of US Residents Breathe Unhealthy Air

Climate Change and Health: Air Quality - NRDC

Climate change threatens the air you breathe by fueling smog and ragweed pollen. About 4 in 10 Americans—nearly 127 million—live in areas with both ...

A quarter of Americans live with polluted air, with people of color and ...

About 1 in 4 people in the United States – more than 119 million residents ... Generally, 17.6 million fewer people were breathing unhealthy air ...

Household air pollution - World Health Organization (WHO)

Around 2.1 billion people worldwide (around a third of the global population) cook using open fires or inefficient stoves fuelled by ...

Trouble in the Air - Environment America

Millions of Americans Breathe Polluted Air. A new report finds that in 2016, 73 million Americans experienced more than 100 days of degraded air quality with ...

Progress Cleaning the Air and Improving People's Health | US EPA

For more than forty-five years the Clean Air Act has cut pollution as the U.S. economy has grown. Americans breathe less pollution and face lower risks of ...

Nearly half of Americans breathe dirty air, report finds - CBS News

More than two of every five Americans reside in counties with unhealthy levels of smog and air pollution, thanks largely to the effect of global warming.

9 out of 10 people worldwide breathe polluted air, but more ...

and household air pollution.“Air pollution threatens us all, but the poorest and most ... WHO has been monitoring household air pollution for more ...

A quarter of Americans live with unhealthy air pollution new report ...

(CNN) -- About 1 in 4 people in the United States -- more than 119 million residents -- live with air pollution that can hurt their health and shorten their ...

1 in 3 Americans breathe unhealthy air, new report says - Grist

A new report by the American Lung Association found that more than one in three Americans were exposed to unhealthy levels of air pollution between 2019 to ...

Half of the US population breathes unhealthy air - edie

More than 142 million US citizens are breathing unhealthy amounts of ozone air pollution – making this the third year in a row that fully half the US public ...

Air pollution | European Environment Agency's home page

Exposure to fine particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide levels above the World Health Organization recommendations cause an estimated 253,000 ...

Air Pollution and Your Health

Increases in asthma prevalence and severity are linked to urbanization and outdoor air pollution. Children living in low-income urban areas tend to have more ...

Air Quality - National Summary | US EPA

Air Quality Trends ; Carbon Monoxide, -88, -79, -65, -18 ; Lead, ---, ---, ---, -87.

World Live Air Quality Map - IQAir

5 guideline for annual exposure (< 10 µg), while 98.8% of people breathe unhealthy air in South Asia, the most polluted region globally. High ...

Global air pollution exposure and poverty | Nature Communications

Most of the people breathing unsafe air live in middle-income countries (Fig. 5). Of the 7.3 billion exposed to unsafe concentrations of PM2.5, ...

Pollution - World Bank

Pollution causes more than 9 million premature deaths, the majority of them due to air pollution. That's several times more deaths than from AIDS, tuberculosis, ...

Climate Impacts on Human Health

... more people to unhealthy air. ... Allergic illnesses, including hay fever, affect about one-third of the U.S. population, and more than 34 million Americans have ...

A SPECIAL REPORT ON GLOBAL EXPOSURE TO AIR POLLUTION ...

In 18 African countries, including Burundi, Mali,. South Sudan, Niger, and Uganda, more than 95% of the population relies on solid fuels for ...

Rural and Urban Differences in Air Quality, 2008--2012, and - CDC

The three air-quality measures include 1) total number of days with fine particulate matter (PM2.5) levels greater than the U.S. Environmental ...

131 million Americans live in areas with unhealthy air pollution

More than 131 million Americans are exposed to unhealthy levels of air pollution, according to the American Lung Association's (ALA) 2024 ...