Super pollutants are extremely potent climate pollutants. They include short-lived pollutants like methane, black carbon and tropospheric ozone. Super pollutants are responsible for about 45% of ...

In 2012, Deborah Cory-Slechta at the University of Rochester, New York, received a “bucket of brains”. A colleague had been studying how air pollution around the university harms the hearts and lungs ...

Increased pollution has become a major threat to health. The situation is particularly dire in Delhi-NCR. It's a matter of ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — The San Joaquin Valley Air District has some tips to help improve air quality in your community. Kern County's air quality is known for not being very good. But there are ...

This essay is part of a series on environmental health. Everywhere they look, they find particles of pollution, like infinite spores in an endless contagion field. Scientists call that field the ...

Have you ever gone outside, taken a deep breath in, and abruptly discovered that the air was not exactly what you expected? Instead of spring flowers, the air smells like smoke and car exhaust, almost ...

Air pollution ranks among the world’s deadliest threats, causing an estimated 8 million deaths in 2021, according to a recent analysis from a United Nations partnership. That same year, pollutants ...

Air quality in Los Angeles has improved as the Palisades and Eaton wildfires get under control. But as the fires burned through houses, cars and industrial areas, they spewed out vast amounts of smoke ...

Workers at the drinking water plant in Louisville, Ky. saw a sudden spike in the level of a 'forever chemical.' They traced ...

Biologists and chemists have a new programming language to uncover previously unknown environmental pollutants at breakneck speed -- without requiring them to code. Biologists and chemists have a new ...

On October 7, 2024, the Hawaii Supreme Court, responding to questions certified by the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii, determined that insurers had no duty to defend Aloha ...