Photo by Mark Katzman. Air pollution in India resulted in 1.67 million deaths in 2019—the largest pollution-related death toll in any country in the world—and also accounted for $36.8 billion in ...

New report by Boston College researchers and colleagues from The Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health follows up on landmark 2018 study Pollution continues to kill approximately 9 million people ...

Across the world, coastal regions and ecosystems are facing diverse environmental pressures from overexploitation, soil erosion, urban waste discharge and more. The consequences are equally ...

This story appears in the October 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Air pollution kills seven million people a year. Two of the chief contributors are lax vehicle emissions standards and ...