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

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

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

Yet there are solutions. New World Bank Report Urges Multi-Sector Approach for Cleaner Air. KATHMANDU, June 17, 2025 —Air pollution is the number one risk factor for death and disability in Nepal.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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.