Your lungs play a vital role in keeping you healthy and energised. With rising pollution levels, changing weather patterns, ...

Toxics in the air from urban wildfires may include dioxins, asbestos, and lead. But testing, until recently, for these air ...

Scott Mason IV, a former deputy energy secretary for Oklahoma and member of the Cherokee nation, is the new administrator for the region that covers Texas and four neighboring states.

Environmental Cleanup Costs When fossil fuels are extracted, transported, and used, they often result in environmental damage ...

Dhaka’s air is getting worse, and waste burning is making it unbearable. While traffic and construction play their roles, the hidden culprit — burning garbage — is silently poisoning the city ...

A new study finds that short-term air pollution exposure harms brain function, reducing focus and emotion recognition.

Dementia risk has been linked to air pollution exposure — particularly PM2.5 exposure — through a growing body of medical research.

This paper uses U.S. Toxic Release Inventory data on air lead emissions to provide IV estimates of the effects of air lead concentration on infant mortality. The causal effect of lead on infant ...

Improved computer models shed light on how reducing sulphur emissions will inadvertently release methane from wetlands.

Reducing sulphur in the air may inadvertently increase natural emissions of methane from wetlands such as peatlands and swamps, a new study has found. The resulting additional future release of 20-34 ...

Reducing sulfur in the air may inadvertently increase natural emissions of methane from wetlands such as peatlands and swamps ...