Background: Plastics have conveyed great benefits to humanity and made possible some of
the most significant advances of modern civilization in fields as diverse as medicine …

Climate change is the greatest existential challenge to planetary and human health and is
dictated by a shift in the Earth's weather and air conditions owing to anthropogenic activity …

Gaseous pollutants at the ground level seriously threaten the urban air quality environment
and public health. There are few estimates of gaseous pollutants that are spatially and …

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are fatal for more than 38 million people each year
and are thus the main contributors to the global burden of disease accounting for 70% of …

In June 2020, we published a review focused on assessing the influence of various air
pollutants on the transmission of SARS-CoV-2, and the severity of COVID-19 in patients …

After years of intensive research and deliberations with experts across the globe, the World
Health Organization (WHO) updated its 2005 Global Air Quality Guidelines (AQG) in …

Background Many studies have assessed the harmful effects of ambient air pollution on
human mortality, but the evidence needs further exploration, analysis, and refinement, given …

Developments of advanced sensors for NO 2 gas with high sensitivity and selectivity are
essential but challenging. In this work, a Ce-doped ZnO nanoarray (termed as CZO) was …

This paper aims to serve as an introduction to the Special Issue in Environment International
entitled “Update of the WHO Global Air Quality Guidelines: Systematic Reviews”. The article …

Background Though the association between air pollution and incident type 2 diabetes
(T2D) has been well documented, evidence on the association with development of …