Estonia, along with fellow Baltic states Latvia and Lithuania, is preparing finally to rid itself of one of the last vestiges ...

Streets in Bogota were car-free on Thursday (February 6) as part of the city’s fight against air pollution, encouraging ...

People's ability to interpret emotions or focus on performing a task is reduced by short-term exposure to particulate matter (PM) air pollution, potentially making everyday activities, such as the ...

Improved computer models shed light on how reducing sulphur emissions will inadvertently release methane from wetlands.

Reducing sulphur in the air may inadvertently increase natural emissions of methane from wetlands such as peatlands and swamps, a new study has found. The resulting additional future release of 20-34 ...

When the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement was passed in the 1970s, eutrophication was the big problem. Eutrophication occurs when too many nutrients enter a body of water, increasing the amount of ...

An adverse meteorological conditions (AMC) alert, also known as the "black sky" alert, has been declared in the Russian city ...

A new study has linked higher levels of air pollution to a reduced risk of developing melanoma, but an oncologist warns that ...

Oil spilled from two wrecked tankers has reached the shores of the southern Krasnodar region in Russia. Governor Veniamin Kondratiev declared a regionwide emergency to deal with the pollution ...

From 1990 to 2019, global lung cancer mortality rates related to tobacco have gone down, whereas rates related to ambient ...

Shemsi Gara operated a giant digger in a Kosovo coal mine, churning up toxic dust that covered his face and got into his ...

The 60-year-old lives in Tarapur in the industrial town of Pithampur, known for its automobile and pharmaceutical factories.