If not the root of all evil, chemical pollution is surely responsible for a good chunk of it. At least, that's how it feels sometimes when reading the news and the latest research. Globally, pollution ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency has finalized a key update to the federal air quality standard for fine soot – a step toward reducing deadly air pollution that’s been over a decade in the ...

As fires burn the landscape, they spew airborne gases and particles, though their impact on air pollution might be underestimated. A study in ACS’ Environmental Science & Technology reports that, ...

During periods of heavy rainfall, pipes known as storm overflows aim to prevent excess water from overflowing into the sewage ...

Although our air is much less polluted now than it was some decades ago, in 2023 around 280 000 people in Europe died prematurely due to air pollution. Agriculture is the biggest source of air ...

Particle-based ambient air pollution causes more than 4 million premature deaths each year globally, according to the World Health Organization. The tiniest particles—2.5 microns or smaller, known as ...

By Rashidul Hasan Riaz Panchayet used to farm papaya, cucumber, okra and bananas on his land in Madhupur village, located in ...

In a two-step of ideas and action, the White House has released a report that outlines a government-wide approach for addressing plastic pollution and announced that buying single-use plastics for ...

NESREA shuts four Nasarawa facilities over pollution and regulatory violations, warning operators to comply with ...

Twenty years ago, a team of U.K. scientists sounded the alarm on a then-underappreciated problem: the breakdown of plastic litter into small, even microscopic, fragments. While many previous reports ...