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'How did Beijing tackle air pollution?': China's tutorial to India as Delhi chokes, offers AQI guide to improve air quality

As Delhi and its neighbouring areas continue to choke under a blanket of toxic smog with the AQI crossing the 400 mark in several places, China has offered some lessons to India to tackle air ...
Healthline

Air Pollution and Lung Cancer: Is There a Link?

Less commonly, lung cancer can also be a result of air pollution — the addition of harmful substances into the air. In 2013, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) of the World Health ...
CNN

Nearly half of Americans live in an area with a failing grade for air pollution, and the problem is only getting worse

Almost half of everyone who lives in the United States breathes unhealthy levels of air pollution, according to the American Lung Association’s annual State of the Air report, released Wednesday.
The New England Journal of Medicine

Climate Change, Fossil-Fuel Pollution, and Children’s Health

The combustion of fossil fuels (coal, petroleum [oil], and natural gas) is the major source of both air pollution and the greenhouse-gas emissions driving climate change. The fetus, infant, and child ...
NPR

EPA tightens rules on some air pollution for the first time in over a decade

When Cynthia Pinto-Cabrera developed asthma at 12, it didn't seem that unusual to her. Lots of her classmates in California's San Joaquin Valley carried inhalers to school. Her little brother needed a ...