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EPIC's Director Michael Greenstone speaks with BBC Newshour on the latest AQLI report findings.

A new report by the Air Quality Life Index (AQLI) has found that particulate air pollution remains the world’s greatest threat to human life expectancy.

New data from the Air Quality Life Index (AQLI) shows that while particulate air pollution remains the world’s greatest external risk to human health, its impact on global life expectancy...

Cigarette smoking and other uses of tobacco shave an average of 2.2 years off lifespans globally. But merely breathing—if the air is polluted—is more damaging to human health, according to...

Air pollution is more dangerous to the health of the average person on planet Earth than smoking or alcohol, with the threat worsening in its global epicenter South Asia even...

A new working paper by EPIC's Eyal Frank of the University of Chicago and Anant Sudarshan of Warwick University, used a statistical method called “difference-in-differences” to compare changes in the...

Eyal Frank is an environmental economist at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy. Speaking to Srijana Mitra Das, he outlines the economics of protecting habitats and species.

In a ground-breaking peer-reviewed study, a team of researchers from the EPIC-Affiliated Climate Impact Lab projected how mortality from temperature would change in the future.