On June 20, a 50-member team led by NGO Asas de Socorro and Rede Reviva walked about 1.5 kilometers (1 mile) along the shoreline of the Puraquequara Lake in eastern Manaus during a garbage-collection ...

Pesticide pollution is a problem especially in the middle of the country. And sometimes there's enough of it to possibly hurt ...

More than 20 years ago, the Chinese government instituted the Scientific Outlook on Development (SOD) program, tying local ...

New research presented today at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) suggests that exposure to air pollution may impact genes associated with ...

TOXIC ZONE In this photo released by Navotas Mayor John Rey Tiangco, smoke rises from the city’s landfill on May 5, about a month after a fire on April 10 spread in more than half of its estimated ...

What does air pollution do to your body? Who is most at risk? What can you do about it? What even is air pollution? Pulmonologist Marc Sala, MD and associate professor at Northwestern Medicine, is ...

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Mercury naturally occurs in soil and can accumulate in high concentrations because of various human activities. In order to further explore the effect of long-term mercury contamination of soil near a ...

Melanie Malone led a research project to identify and study contamination sites in Washington State. Then the E.P.A. canceled her grant. Credit...Meron Tekie Menghistab for The New York Times ...

Ever since Ronald Reagan was president, the Environmental Protection Agency has assigned a value to human life. If you think too long about it, it’s a bit crass, but the upshot was to provide some ...

Artificial light pollution is a lesser-known factor contributing to the decline of pollinator species. Light pollution negatively impacts nocturnal pollinators like moths and bats, disrupting their ...

We are exposed to air pollution daily. When we step outside, we inhale pollutants from particulate matter (such as smoke or dust), burning fossil fuels, wildfires and more. For Lung Cancer Awareness ...