VIENTIANE: Air pollution due to agricultural burning is affecting all parts of Laos, with the worst levels recorded in Xieng ...

Air pollution due to agricultural burning is affecting all parts of the country, with the worst levels recorded in Xieng Khuang, Xayaboury and Xekong provinces and in Vientiane, the Natural Resources ...

To keep illnesses at bay, experts recommend venturing out wearing an anti-pollution mask, preferably an N95, to protect yourself against harmful pollutants, especially particulate matter PM2.5 ...

With levels of sooty air pollution far too high across swaths of the Los Angeles area, Dana Benton is sleeping with a mask on ... Across Southern California, people are taking precautions as ...

Air pollution is a silent but deadly threat affecting millions of people worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) ...

On that day, the central government adopted a new policy of letting individuals decide on their own whether to wear masks. The survey on 1,000 people, both men and women aged between 20 and 79 ...

Japanese people have taken to wearing face masks during the pandemic, but the main reason for doing so has more to do with going along with others than preventing the coronavirus from spreading ...

Four years after the Covid-19 pandemic's onset, a lot less people are wearing masks. As vaccines offered protection and the rate of spread slowed, government recommendations for masking dropped.