University of Utah researchers believe inflammation starts a months-long process that increases risk of aneurysm rupture.

Negotiations toward a global, legally binding plastics treaty are set to resume this summer, with the United Nations ...

A leading expert in the health impacts of plastic pollution and microplastics is calling on the UN to end the use of toxic ...

Sunscreen chemicals like EHMC may be silently increasing ocean plastic pollution by strengthening harmful microbial biofilms ...

Atop the proposals to remediate ocean pollution, the researchers recommend: banning coal combustion and the production of single-use plastics, controlling coastal pollution, and expanding marine ...

By looking at the microbial communities that live on corals, our research uncovered a crucial role that fishes play in protecting coral reefs. We also discovered that these fishes together with clean ...

New research finds an estimated 27 million tons of nanoplastics in the North Atlantic, raising concerns for marine ecosystems and human health.

Short Wave producer Hannah Chinn has adult-onset eczema. They're not the only one. Up to ten percent of people in the United ...

Urban pollution has emerged as one of the most critical environmental and public health challenges in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) ...

Washing plastic in dishwashers raises the release of microplastics into the environment, which poses a human health risk, a ...

The report caps a two-year-long research review by a team of 16 scientists that focused on pollution patterns in two ...

African countries, including South Africa, have limited waste infrastructure and uneven water treatment systems, which ...