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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.
As the world celebrates Environment Day, the United Nations estimates that there will be more plastic than fish in the ocean by 2050. The associate director of advocacy and strategic communications at ...
Tired of a system that favours polluters and perpetuates debt, African leaders are demanding climate and debt justice ahead of the G20. Their proposal would fundamentally change how green technology ...
A new study reveals that air pollution, traditional herbal medicines and other environmental exposures are linked to genetic ...
As temperatures rose in more than a dozen Middle Eastern and North African countries over the past two decades, cancer mortality among women did too, according to a new study.
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 ...
Collecting scrap metal is a way for some of Zimbabwe's poorest people to make a living. But the job is also an environmental ...