(Natural News) An unlikely source of air pollution has been blamed from almost 1 million deaths every year. Up to 900,000 premature deaths have been attributed to anthropogenic secondary organic aerosols (ASOAs). While majority of ASOAs come from fossil fuel combustion, some of them can be found in everyday products such as household paint, cleaning […]

(Natural News) A recent study by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has revealed that deodorant, sunblock and bug spray are responsible for a large amount of smog hanging over cities. With millions of people applying these products in close proximity, the particles greatly add to ozone pollution – even more than traffic. In […]

(Natural News) Air pollution can negatively impact mental health and increase people’s risk of various psychiatric disorders, such as depression and anxiety. This is the conclusion of many studies that examined how exposure to particulate matter (PM) affects mental health. Also known as particulates, particulate matter is a mixture of fine solid and liquid particles suspended in the air, such […]

(Natural News) Switching to electric trucks and buses could prevent up to 57,000 premature deaths and slash over 450 million tons of nitrogen oxide emissions by 2050. Those are the findings of a recent report by the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), a global nonprofit environmental advocacy organization based in New York. The report, titled “Clean Trucks, […]

(Natural News) Millions of people across the globe stayed indoors for more than a year due to the coronavirus pandemic. Many experts believed that the lack of vehicular traffic meant that air quality would significantly improve. As it turns out, more than 100 million Americans are still breathing in heavily polluted air. In fact, according to a recent report […]

(Natural News) On Jan. 23, a protest by residents in Chengdu, the capital of the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan was violently dispersed by police. According to a report by the Chinese-language version The Epoch Times, residents of the Shuangliu District of Chengdu had gathered to protest the continued construction of the sewage plant that was being built around 200 […]

(Natural News) A new study reveals that people who live in highly polluted areas are more likely to die from COVID-19, the disease caused by the Wuhan coronavirus. Researchers from Harvard University looked at the impact of particles less than 2.5 micrometers in size (PM2.5) from various sources, such as vehicle exhausts, on COVID-19 health outcomes. According to their findings, which appeared […]

(Natural News) Long-term exposure to air pollution has been linked to a heightened risk of death due to the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19). Now, new research has estimated the proportion of COVID-19 deaths worldwide that could be attributed to air pollution. Published late October in the journal Cardiovascular Research, the study revealed that roughly 15 percent (or more […]

(Natural News) It turns out, breathing in polluted air doesn’t just negatively affect lung function. It may impair memory, too. In a recent study, researchers from the University of Warwick in the UK found that people living in some of the most polluted districts of England have significantly poorer memory than people living in cleaner places. Their findings […]

(Natural News) Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is linked to many health and environmental concerns. But a recent study by researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston found another troubling effect of fracking: radioactive air particles. Their findings, published in Nature Communications, showed that airborne radiation levels downwind of US fracking sites are […]