Ahead of the International Day of Clean Air, here’s a look at what causes air pollution, what it does to people and how the ...

Franz Geiger heads up a research group at Northwestern that uses lasers to see how tightly pollutants stick to other substances. This new field’s called environmental surface science–and research in ...

Alzheimer's disease is a complex, multi-faceted condition, and while we know a lot about its signs and symptoms, experts are ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — The Toledo Metropolitan Area Council of Governments (TMACOG), as well as the city of Toledo, is warning the public of health risks that come with increased ground-level ozone in the ...

This essay is part of a series on environmental health. Everywhere they look, they find particles of pollution, like infinite spores in an endless contagion field. Scientists call that field the ...

In 2012, Deborah Cory-Slechta at the University of Rochester, New York, received a “bucket of brains”. A colleague had been studying how air pollution around the university harms the hearts and lungs ...

Many studies have shown that the burden of air pollution in the United States disproportionately falls on racial minorities, especially Black Americans. In August, a federal judge barred the EPA and ...

Lead, pesticides, brominated flame retardants, plastic additives, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and heavy metals. This is what researchers found when they collected dead hedgehogs to investigate ...