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Air Pollution and Your Health


Air Pollution and Your Health

Air pollution is a familiar environmental health hazard. We know what we're looking at when brown haze settles over a city, exhaust billows across a busy ...

Climate impacts of air pollution - Air quality, energy and health

Air pollution is a risk for all-cause mortality as well as specific diseases. The specific disease outcomes most strongly linked with exposure to air pollution ...

Research on Health Effects from Air Pollution | US EPA

Decades of research have shown that air pollutants such as ozone and particulate matter (PM) increase the amount and seriousness of lung and heart disease and ...

Air quality and health | Minnesota Pollution Control Agency

Exposure to air pollution can affect everyone's health. When we breathe in air pollutants, they can enter our bloodstream and contribute to coughing or ...

Ηow air pollution affects our health - European Environment Agency

Air pollution is the single largest environmental health risk in Europe and a major cause of premature death and disease.

Health Impact of Air Pollution - American Lung Association

Air pollution also increases the risk of chronic lung and cardiovascular diseases that put people at higher risk of poor outcomes from COVID-19. It should come ...

Health Effects of Air Pollution - WebMD

Particles in air pollution can cause lung cancer, the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the U.S. About 6% of deaths worldwide ...

How air pollution is destroying our health

Ambient (outdoor) air pollution in both cities and rural areas is causing fine particulate matter which results in strokes, heart diseases, lung cancer, and ...

Air Pollution | Climate and Health - CDC

Climate change is projected to harm human health by increasing ground-level ozone and/or particulate matter air pollution in some locations.

Air Pollution - National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

Air pollution is linked to health problems in the respiratory, cardiovascular, reproductive, neurological, and immune systems. For example, people with asthma ...

Air pollution and your health | Colorado Department of Public Health ...

Air pollution can cause short- and long-term health impacts and increase the risk of premature death. Short-term exposures can lead to eye irritation, wheezing ...

Air Pollution: Everything You Need to Know - NRDC

Air pollution refers to the release of pollutants into the air—pollutants that are detrimental to human health and the planet as a whole ...

Your Health | AirNow.gov

Millions of people live in areas where air pollution can cause serious health problems. Local air quality can affect our daily lives. Like the weather ...

Health | California Air Resources Board - CA.gov

Air pollution poses a significant risk to public health. Exposure to polluted air is linked to a number of health effects. Some of these are: worsened ...

Environmental and Health Impacts of Air Pollution: A Review

Air pollution mainly affects those living in large urban areas, where road emissions contribute the most to the degradation of air quality. There is also a ...

Particle Pollution and Health - New York State Department of Health

Particle pollution from fine particulates (PM2.5) is a concern when levels in air are unhealthy. Breathing in unhealthy levels of PM2.5 can increase the ...

The impact of air pollution on your health | Pursuit

Air pollution increases the risk of disease among all people but certain groups, like young children, older adults, and people with chronic diseases likely ...

Health effects of air pollution | Environmental Defense Fund

Air pollution is now the biggest environmental risk for early death, responsible for more than 6 million premature deaths each year from heart attacks, strokes ...

Air Pollution & Your Health | Puget Sound Clean Air Agency, WA

Pollution, smog, and air toxics pose the greatest risk to our well-being. Outdoor air pollution can cause heart attacks, asthma, strokes, cancer, and premature ...

Fires and Your Health | AirNow.gov

The biggest health threat from smoke is from fine particles. These microscopic particles can get into your eyes and respiratory system, where they can cause ...