Alongside climate change, air pollution is one of the biggest environmental threats to human health. Tiny particles known as particulate matter or PM2.5 (named for their diameter of just 2.5 ...

A new study from the University shines a light on the enormous scale of uncollected rubbish and open burning of plastic waste in the first ever global plastics pollution inventory. University of Leeds ...

A new interactive map and groundbreaking database allows people in the world’s largest metropolitan areas to track their air pollution exposure, along with their region’s biggest sources of ...

“Our research shows that wildfire-related (particle pollution) appears to be more harmful than equivalent levels of pollution from other sources,” Wei said in a news release. “As wildfire activity ...

Home is where the heart is — but it could also be where your health troubles start. Americans spend roughly 90% of their time ...

Globally, non-point source pollution is an important source of water quality deterioration in rivers and lakes. A ditch-pond system, consisting of ditches and ponds, is considered to be similar to ...

Unlike most other pollutants, particulate matter (PM) cannot be characterized by the space- and time-variations of the mass concentrations of a single compound. Important factors influencing PM ...

In 1965, a presidential advisory panel issued a report warning that pervasive chemical and carbon pollution was harming environmental health and changing the climate. Five years later, President ...

The Union and Delhi governments have finalized a time-bound winter action plan targeting vehicular emissions, dust, and ...

Petroleum from land-based sources, especially leaks from automobiles, is by far the number one source of oil pollution in the ocean. All the petroleum spilled by leaky oil tankers, broken pipelines ...