A study analyzing genetic alterations in tumors of 871 non-smokers from four continents points to air pollution as one of the possible causes. The research, published today in Nature, shows for ...

Scientist Bjorn Samset says discovery that clean-up may contribute to warming shows intricate nature of climate change and ...

Plastic pollution is a mounting global health crisis causing widespread disease and death, with annual economic losses ...

Air pollution modelling and control represent critical intersections between environmental science, engineering and public policy. Modelling techniques—ranging from deterministic dispersion ...

People living in high pollution areas may rack up DNA glitches that trigger lung cancer, scientists suggest July 2 in Nature. Those glitches can include mutations that hobble the very genes that ...

Plastic pollution poses a "grave, growing, and under-recognised threat" to human health, costing the global economy at least ...

Researchers from University College London and King's College London published a study in The Lancet Healthy Longevity that identified the ages of 45 to 69 as a critical window during which air ...

A recent appreciation of lung cancer in never smokers (LCINS) has raised concerns about global incidence and mortality.

AirNow The Air Quality Index (AQI), developed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), measures air pollution on a scale from 0 to 500: 0-50 (Green): Good—air quality is satisfactory.

Supreme Court empowers Pollution Control Boards to impose and collect restitutionary damages for environmental restoration.