Effects of prolonged exposure to polluted air go far beyond respiratory health. Studies show the same pollutants responsible ...

Decades after the United States banned lead-based paint in 1978 and phased out leaded gasoline by 1996, toxic lead particles ...

According to a 2022 BRIN study of rainwater samples collected across the city, microplastics are floating in Jakarta's skies and waterways, posing risks to both the environment and its inhabitants.

Lead exposure sounds like a modern problem, at least if you define “modern” the way a paleoanthropologist might: a time that ...

CHIP JACOBS, WRITER: It's hard for us to imagine what it was like that day in July 1943. It appeared quite suddenly. CHRISTOPHER WELLS, HISTORIAN: Thick, dark, silvery blue clouds descended over the ...

Power plants may emit higher amounts of pollution during lapses in federal monitoring and enforcement, such as during a ...

Delhi could forecast its ‘very poor and above’ air pollution days with over 80 per cent accuracy in winter months (October-February) in 2023-24 and 2024-25, according to a new independent study ...

Shruthi Mahalingaiah, a Harvard researcher, investigated the fertility risks women face from air pollution. But her grant was canceled. Credit...Cody O'Loughlin for The New York Times Supported by ...

Rust-orange shipping containers loom over Sade Hogue’s yard in Settegast, overshadowing dozens of northeast Houston homes soaked in some of Texas’ dirtiest air. The makeshift wall blocks her view of ...

Researchers claim the xAI data center in South Memphis will have a minimal impact on local air pollution. The Shelby County Health Department has reported nine human cases of West Nile Virus so far ...