The Canadian Medical Association warned air pollution-related deaths in the country may total 800,000 by 2031.

A majority of the victims will be senior citizens who are more vulnerable to heart ailments, the CMA said. According to the CMA study released Wednesday, this year 21,000 Canadians will die from short- and long-term exposure to air pollution. By 2031 the annual death toll could rise by 83 percent to 39,000 fatalities. A majority of the elderly victims will expire from heat and lung conditions brought by decades of inhaling dirty air

Air pollution has been identified as the leading cause of mortality and morbidity in Bangladesh, according to a new study.

"If the exposure to urban air pollution were reduced by 20 per cent to 80 per cent, it would result in saving 1,200 to 3,500 lives annually and avoiding 80 to 230 million cases of disease," said Country Environmental Assessment (2006) report released recently

Pollution readings in California have jumped from 2 to 10 times above federal benchmarks for clean air, according to Dimitri Stanich, spokesman for the California Air Resources Board.

With a weather forecast of more thunderstorms and dry-lightning strikes, firefighters don't see any relief in sight for Californian's suffering from a rash of wildfires

Low vitamin D levels is linked with cardiac risks, a new study has found adding to the pre-existing evidence about the "sunshine" vitamin's role in good health.

The study, published in the June 23, 2008 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, found that patients with the lowest blood levels of vitamin D were about two times more likely to die from any cause during the next eight years than those with the highest levels. The link with cardio-related deaths was particularly strong in those with low vitamin D levels

Exposure to fine particulate matter in the air is responsible for as many as 24,000 deaths each year in California, a new study has found.

The report by the California Air Resources Board says Californians exposed to particle pollution had their lives cut short by an average of 10 years