As suicide rates have been climbing for several decades and policymakers and others look for tools to identify and protect ...

One of the most apparent effects of air pollution is acid rain that occurs when rain, snow, mists, or dust become abnormally ...

A year ago, federal environmental regulators told West Virginia officials that their plan to clear sulfur and smog from skies ...

Lung cancer has long been seen as a disease mainly caused by smoking. However, doctors are now noticing a worrying pattern: ...

Research has increasingly connected wildfire and smoke with worsening mental health, partly due to damage in the brain.

As the war in Iran enters its fourth week, the costs are adding up. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Doug Weir, with the Conflict and War Observatory, about impacts to human health and the environment.

An NWS air quality alert urges millions in southeastern Nebraska to stay indoors as smoke-driven PM2.5 creates unhealthy air.

Socioeconomic factors are widely recognized as potential modifiers of the relationship between air pollution and mortality, but the available evidence remains limited.

Michigan towns hand out huge property tax breaks to companies for pollution control, but many of those sites still break air ...

A new study linking Pittsburgh’s air pollution to thousands of deaths each year has been published just as the EPA moves to ...

Socioeconomic factors are widely recognized as potential modifiers of the relationship between air pollution and mortality, ...