A new study highlights how a combination of environmental stressors -- namely plastic pollution and seawater flooding -- can increase the threats faced by plants in some of the planet's critical ...

An international study published across 34 countries shows that the biological age of the brain can be accelerated or delayed ...

China’s campaign to clean its skies has delivered measurable health benefits for hundreds of millions of people, but a ...

A major new global modeling study led by researchers at Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) at the University of York ...

Posters presented at the CHEST 2024 annual meeting demonstrated air pollution's role in lung impairment and disease, highlighting the urgent need for providers to address the escalating impacts of ...

The U.S. EPA is delaying standards for steel mill and coke oven emissions for about two more years. The agency previously sought strict standards for what steel mills emit, but new leadership is ...

Researchers find that nationwide policies to ban plastic bags may be paying off, with fewer showing up during coastal cleanups. Ever since their invention in 1959, plastic bags have become synonymous ...

Residents in many disadvantaged communities, along with the businesses that serve them, now risk being exposed to even higher levels of pollution than they already are. That’s the likely consequence ...

The damage from military attacks on cities can fill the air with pollutants that harm the lungs and stress the heart.