Air pollution has an alarming effect on global health. In 2019, it was responsible for 4.2 million global deaths. Inhaling ...

Air pollution was responsible for 1.1 million deaths across Africa in 2019, with household air pollution—driven largely by indoor cookstoves—accounting for 700,000 fatalities, while increased outdoor ...

Air pollution in Africa. With the support of the World Heart Federation and the Clean Air Fund, we conducted a review to capture a picture of available research on air pollution and CVD in Africa.

Africa continues to grapple with plastic pollution, a waste crisis, and limited investment, activists report, as discussions unfold at the UN climate meetings in Azerbaijan. To shed light on these ...

African leaders must treat plastic pollution as an urgent public health crisis, write global health specialists Sophie Masika and Lorraine Mugambi-Nyaboga. [NAIROBI, SciDev.Net] Microplastics are all ...

Collecting scrap metal is a way for some of Zimbabwe's poorest people to make a living. But the job is also an environmental ...

A new study reveals that air pollution, traditional herbal medicines and other environmental exposures are linked to genetic ...

A new international study, published in Nature, offers groundbreaking evidence that environmental exposures—particularly air ...

The bedroom of 74-year-old Cherifa Attia smells like burnt rubber. The vast phosphate processing plant beside her home has ...

A recent study reveals a direct link between air pollution and lung cancer, identifying increased DNA mutations in ...

A new study shares some factors that may be contributing to the development of lung cancer in people who have little or no ...