Industrial pollution has been having a negative impact on human health since the height of the Roman Empire, reveals new research. Lead pollution likely caused widespread IQ declines throughout Europe ...

Open Access Government explores the issue of water pollution and its severe implications for public health and the ...

Light pollution is reshaping ecosystems and human health. Discover how dark-sky initiatives protect nocturnal ecology and ...

As final global plastics treaty negotiations take place in Geneva, The Lancet elevates plastic pollution as a grave, global threat to human health. “To those meeting in Geneva: Please take up the ...

Acid rain is a very broad term. It encompasses not only rain but also other forms of precipitation including fog, hail, sleet, snow, dust, and gas. It can even cause haze or smog, contributing to the ...

Earlier this year, a spate of deaths in Florida caused by Vibrio vulnificus, known as the flesh-eating bacteria, made ...

Handzel is San Diego County chapter vice president of the International Dark Sky Association and lives in San Diego. It’s just light, right? Unfortunately, we’re learning that artificial light is not ...

This is a case of taking a big pollution problem to heart, literally. A study published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology for the first time found microplastics in the hearts of ...

University of Brighton researchers are leading a national project to develop a diagnostic tool to locate human sources of pollution in UK rivers.

Whales are best known for their massive size and the biggest among them are the baleen whales. Containing 16 different whale species, the biggest of the baleen whales — the blue whale — measures in at ...