New research in the Wasatch Front found that when air pollution was higher than the EPA daily limit in the week before ...

Public concern about air pollution has traditionally centred on chemical pollutants such as vehicle exhaust and industrial emissions found in fine particulate matter (PM2.5).

For pregnant women, exposure to fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) was associated with altered immune responses that can lead to adverse birth outcomes, according to a new study led by Harvard T.H ...

The Fourth National Climate Assessment for the United States claims that particulate matter (PM2.5) causes heart attacks, deaths, and other harms and that these may be worsened due to climate change.

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People walk through a Brooklyn Park on a hazy morning resulting from Canadian wildfires on June 6, 2023 in New York City. Over 100 wildfires are burning in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia and ...

Recently we've experienced a trifecta regarding the issue of mortality associated with fine particles (PM2.5, i.e., particles with median diameters less than 2.5 millionths of a meter). Let's take a ...

PM2.5 designates a near-ubiquitous air-polluting particle that frequently appears in the scientific literature as well as popular press news items. But few of us really know what they are talking ...