New research suggests that being exposed to air pollution for long periods can have similar effects to smoking and aging.

The Indian government's exemption of a large percentage of coal-fired plants from installing pollution control systems has sparked criticism. Former Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh argues that ...

Bangladesh, one of the world’s most climate-vulnerable countries, is witnessing a troubling rise in lightning-related deaths.

The current infrastructure also isn’t set up to fully account for the shifting behavior of wildfire smoke, which can travel ...

Short Wave producer Hannah Chinn has adult-onset eczema. They're not the only one. Up to ten percent of people in the United ...

Fireworks dazzle—but their air pollution plume can spike by 600%, impair thinking, fuel depression, and even boost violence.

Analysis shows EPA rollbacks of the HON rule would put overburdened communities at risk and benefit chemical plants that ...

First of Its Kind Cross-Regional Citizen Science Air Quality Monitoring Project in Surabaya, Indonesia; Ogijo, Nigeria; ...

The Environmental Protection Agency has placed on administrative leave 139 employees who signed a so-called "declaration of ...

Growing interest in health and the exposome—a person's collective environmental exposures—is spurring new funding and ...

Boxtown residents and supporters stand outside the Shelby County Health Department on April 30 during a protest organized by ...

“Much of the new guidance is remarkably UNremarkable,” wrote Gretchen Goldman, president of the Union of Concerned Scientists ...