Hannah Ray J Childs propelled her kayak into a rapid on Iowa’s Maquoketa River on a recent afternoon and dipped her paddle in ...

A new study finds that smoke from larger wildfires is reversing more than a decade of American improvements in smog.

The city is reducing the speed limit to 15 mph at hundreds of school zones across the five boroughs next year, and hopes to expand that limit to every eligible city school over the next several years, ...

Air pollution does not have to exceed federal limits to potentially harm human health, according to a new published study ...

A new study by researchers at UC Davis Health and Kaiser Permanente found that higher exposure to very small air pollution particles (PM 2.5) over a 17-year span was associated with lower semantic ...

"Black carbon from satellite launches has about 540 times bigger climate effect than black carbon released by ships, cars and power plants." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

MAHARASHTRA, INDIA — In clinics and labs around the world, scientists are uncovering a consequence of air pollution that received little attention for decades: Polluted air not only damages the lungs ...

Before Chernobyl became a global symbol of disaster, Brazil had its own industrial nightmare. Cubatão was called the “Valley of Death” because of extreme pollution, poisoned soil, contaminated water, ...

A single scoop of water from an Irish river has revealed evidence not only of Ireland's only frog species—as expected—but also signs of the dreaded B. dendrobatidis fungus, marking the first time this ...

There is a troubling contradiction at the heart of the global transition to a cleaner, greener, tech-driven future: Modern technologies — everything from AI to wind turbines, as well as cellphones, ...

There is a troubling contradiction at the heart of the global transition to a cleaner, greener, tech-driven future: Modern technologies – everything from AI to wind turbines, as well as cellphones, ...