A Johns Hopkins study confirms that coal-handling operations at CSX’s Curtis Bay terminal are a major source of air pollution ...

Air pollution has long been linked to cardiovascular and respiratory illnesses, but new research suggests it may also significantly impair brain health—especially when exposure occurs during midlife.

Heatwaves have become more frequent as the world cleans up harmful aerosol pollution, unmasking more of the warming effects ...

University of Utah Health researchers have documented an association between air pollution exposure and a rare type of ...

The Illinois EPA declared an Air Pollution Action Day in the Chicago metro area. See today's air quality index forecast for ...

While wildfire smoke is unhealthy, people and animals are also at health risk from what they can't smell.

Federal actions like the 1970 Clean Air Act and the 1972 Clean Water Act helped regulate water and air pollution.

Smith found that while the irregular shape and roughness of the lunar dust still irritates the lungs, its effects are ...

How Pollution Affects Solar Radiation. The study, led by Professor Martin Wild of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), highlights how the amount of solar energy reaching Earth ...

Air pollution used to be much worse. In October of 1948, a thick, choking smog settled over the small Pennsylvania town of Donora. The town was home to two steel plants.

On June 24, the city released initial air quality test results. But the analysis was flawed, some experts said.