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A new study found that air pollution can cause lung cancer in people who have never smoked, and can damage the organ in ...

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

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

A combination of sewage overflows and coastal winds could be sending billions of airborne microplastic particles into the ...

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

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

Evansville has been called a sacrifice zone due to pollution hazards, and federal goals to lower environmental safeguards ...

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; ...

A study out of Stanford University found that using a gas or propane stove releases dangerously high levels of benzene.