Widespread lead pollution from the Roman Empire's metals industry caused a cognitive decline across Europe, with researchers estimating a 2- to 3-point drop in IQ due to lead exposure, a recent ...

LONDON, July 19 (Reuters) - Air pollution is spiking across Britain, France, and southern Europe amid record-breaking temperatures and scorching wildfires. Scientists with the EU Copernicus ...

STOCKHOLM - Fine particle pollution caused the deaths of over 250,000 people in the European Union in 2021, according to a report by the European Environment Agency (EEA) published on Nov 24.

Dutch scientists are putting together remarkable maps showing pollution over Europe and other regions of the globe. Using the US space agency's Aura satellite, the team can look right down to the ...

The map also showed purple for “very unhealthy" across much of the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area, where the Air Quality Index numbers of 250 and were common, though conditions started ...

The purpose of the “Map of Forever Pollution” is to provide data about sites known to be contaminated or likely to be contaminated with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in Europe.

That air pollution took a massive toll on the U.S. in the past few weeks, with the smoke causing extremely poor levels of air quality. And that impact is far from over.

High air pollution levels for individual European cities have been reported before, but this new data analysis offers the first Europe-wide comparison of pollution in different regions. We show where ...

LONDON — Cardiovascular disease (CVD)–related deaths in Europe due to air pollution far exceeded those in the United States, according to experts at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC ...

Air quality in Europe is improving but still poses high risks, the European Environment Agency (EEA) said on Thursday, as fine particles exposure led to at least 238,000 premature deaths in the 27 ...