Air pollution knows no borders -- even in your own body, says public health expert María Neira. In this startling talk, she describes how the microscopic particles and chemicals you breathe affect...

The World Health Organization is calling for governments and policymakers to “act with urgency” on the climate and health crises, in a new special report.

Cop28 president Sultan Al Jaber says summit in Dubai in November will dedicate a day to health

Exposure to air pollution can lead to cancer, stroke, respiratory, cardiovascular diseases and other health issues. Nearly half of lung cancer cases in people who have never smoked are estimated to...

In March, the north and south poles had record temperatures. In May in Delhi, it hit 49C. Last week in Madrid, 40C. Experts say the worst effects of the climate emergency cannot be avoided if...

Exclusive: Dr Maria Neira says the World Health Organisation could monitor the number of lives saved from cutting air pollution

Easter Saturday will see the fourth anniversary of the introduction of the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) to central London, and in August 2023 the Mayor of London plans to extend it to the boundar...

Exclusive: Simple act of breathing is killing 7 million people a year and harming billions more, but ‘a smog of complacency pervades the planet’, says Dr Tedros Adhanom

Dirty air is a plague on our health, causing 7 million deaths and many more preventable illnesses worldwide each year. But the solutions are clear.

Pioneering initiative to consider children’s addresses after coroner ruled air pollution a factor in death of Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, nine

While Covid ravaged across the world, air pollution killed about three times as many people. We must fight the climate crisis with the same urgency with which we confronted coronavirus

Residents of wealthy nations and developing economies will suffer, says study

City dwellers across Europe are getting used to clean air.

As extreme and slow onset weather events increase, so too are the public health issues that come with those changes.

There is a disconnect between the size of the global air pollution problem and the tiny bit of funding dedicated to it. 

The public health ministry of Thailand informed that around 1.3 million people in the country are sick due to the rising levels of air pollution

A plan led by Barbados could remake the way the world of finance deals with the climate crisis.

Reducing pollution could prevent more 44,000 cases of childhood asthma in the UK, a study has found.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for focused  action to address global warming and climate change to promote health outcomes. Recommendations

Evidence is accumulating that breathing contaminated air might impair cognition.

Particles breathed by mothers pass to their vulnerable foetuses, with potentially lifelong consequences

New report says falling cost of renewable energy makes switch from fossil fuels cheapest option.

I must begin with a confession. When I became the chair of the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change (UKHACC), I learnt that much of the work of the Alliance was concerned with the harmful effects of...

Climate change could be the “ultimate” public health opportunity—but we need politicians to act, the World Health Organization’s Maria Neira tells Elisabeth Mahase Maria Neira wanted to be a diabet...

Research shows that cancers might not always be caused by DNA mutations, as previously thought.

Global study suggests connection has strengthened over time across every country and continent

More than 200 medical journals are calling on the World Health Organization to deem two overlapping environmental crises — climate change and biodiversity loss — as a global health emergency, while...

El informe realizado por la Fundación IMAS revela que el 57 % de los centros en España limitaron explícitamente el ingreso de mayores en UCI

Exclusive: Produced by traffic, nanoparticles are already known to invade the brain and can carry carcinogens

$777m pledged for eradication of tropical diseases; COP president courts controversy with remarks denying link between fossil fuels and warming.

Impact of high levels of toxic air ‘is equivalent to having lost a year of education’

Health bodies demand all governments immediately cease expansion of new fossil fuel infrastructure and production

The World Health Organization has released guidelines for strict limits on air pollution from cars, power stations and other sources. If countries adopt them, millions of deaths could be avoided

António Guterres urges governments to introduce windfall levies and use money to support vulnerable people

Coronavirus lockdowns offer a glimpse at life in a low-carbon future.

Public health schemes such as London’s Ulez can be traced back to the study that found an association between air pollution and mortality

Open letter to G20 leaders says addressing climate breakdown key to global revival

Cross-party group highlights new evidence on how dirty air may worsen infections

Charity calls for people to use alternative, less polluting heating and cooking options if they can

Eunice Foote discovered the effects of global warming in 1856, but didn't get the credit she deserved.

"We are not made to sit in a rocking chair and knit," said one of the older Swiss women who won.

France's highest administrative council on Thursday told the government to act now against climate change to ensure it meets comments on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, or else it could face...