Air pollution has always been a big deal, but the pandemic was a catalyst for many of us to start thinking about the air–and what’s in it–much more seriously. More than four years after Covid-19 first ...

Super pollutants are extremely potent climate pollutants. They include short-lived pollutants like methane, black carbon and tropospheric ozone. Super pollutants are responsible for about 45% of ...

A climate super pollutant thousands of times more effective at warming the planet than carbon dioxide is being released at a rate far higher than countries around the world have acknowledged, raising ...

The specific pollutants involved in the atypical brain circuits appear to be nitrogen dioxide, ozone, and PM 2.5 —the small particles that worry many researchers the most. Herting explains: Limits set ...

ATLANTA, GEORGIA - JUNE 25: Cars and trucks drive along Interstate 75/85 June 25, 2003 in Atlanta, Georgia. The first "Code Red" smog alert was of the year was announced with tailpipe and smokestack ...

In 2012, Deborah Cory-Slechta at the University of Rochester, New York, received a “bucket of brains”. A colleague had been studying how air pollution around the university harms the hearts and lungs ...

Calderón-Garcidueñas, today head of the Environmental Neuroprevention Laboratory at the University of Montana, points out that the damaged brains she documented through neuroimaging in young dogs and ...