The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that its proposed rule controlling carbon emissions from the nation's power plants will cost between $7.3 billion and $8.8 billion, according to two pe

Levels of the harmful air pollutant nitrogen dioxide at a city-center monitoring station are the highest in Europe.

Nearly half of all Americans — more than 147 million — live in counties in the U.S.

Air pollution kills. In 2009, the Capital registered 10,900 premature deaths due to ambient particulate matter (PM) pollution.

Asthma has shown a significant increase in Sri Lanka during the past decade and there are around two million Asthma patients in Sri Lanka at present, Health Services Director General Dr.

Experts on Monday suggested creating awareness among the people to reduce the growing number of patients with respiratory problems as Asthma Association Bangladesh (AAB) reported 70 lakh Bangladesh

The Cochin Thoracic Society will organise a bike rally to create awareness on asthma on World Asthma Day on Tuesday, its treatment and control that will help patients lead normal lives.

The rally will be inaugurated by Hibi Eden, MLA, from the High Court junction and will culminate at the Kaloor international stadium where ten saplings will be planted by the society.

Vehicular pollution is the major reason for increase in asthma cases, say city doctors on World Asthma Day which falls on the first Tuesday of May every year (May 6).

A majority of respiratory physicians in the city say that out of the total number of out-patients, around 50 per cent suffer from asthma. It is a lung disease that narrows the airways thereby causing recurring periods of wheezing, chest tightness, and cough that normally occurs at night or early in the morning.

9-Nation Asia-Pacific Study Interviewed 400 Indian Patients

Pune: Patients suffering from asthma in India suffer the most and asthma management in the country is fairly poor compared to many other nations, reveals a recent analysis of an Asia-Pacific study on asthma and its treatment.

A federal judge in Northern California has ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency must produce new draft standards for ground-level ozone pollution, the main component of smog, by December.