The combined effects of climate change and air pollution have led to direct declines in precipitation in the U.S. Southwest, ...

Researchers found that nearly two thirds of the estimated 2,300 heat deaths resulted from global heating intensified by ...

The state's ambitious Climate Superfund legislation would hold fossil fuel companies liable for emissions, but continues to face fierce opposition.

Over the past several decades, the United States has experienced a steady loss of manufacturing and heavy industry to ...

What is PM2.5? Hazardous airborne particles and chemicals can come in a variety of forms, and from a variety of sources, even some natural ones. Wind-blown desert and mineral dust, wildfires, ...

Over the past several decades, the United States has experienced a steady loss of manufacturing and heavy industry to countries with more lenient environmental regulations. While globalization and ...

Lung cancer among never-smokers is rising worldwide. In one U.S. study of 12,000 lung cancer patients, the share of people who didn’t smoke rose from 8 to 15 percent over twenty years. A British ...

Research from the NIH’s National Cancer Institute, an agency beleaguered by funding cuts and censorship, finds that ...

This paper proposed a novel image-based air pollution monitor (IAPM) by incorporating local and global information in the self-adaptive multiscale transform domain, so as to achieve the timely and ...

Super pollutants like methane and black carbon cause almost half of global warming but only last days to years in the ...

Global warming is a major problem today. Climate change is changing and human activity seems to be one of the main causes. A combination of open scientific data, freely provided by reputable ...

The most effective filters have what’s called high-efficiency particulate air certification. Better known as HEPA filters, ...