The federal government has settled a water pollution case against Chemours, which makes and uses toxic forever chemicals. The ...

The threat posed by plastic in the environment is poorly characterized due to uncertainties and unknowns about sources, transport, transformation and removal processes, and the properties of the ...

During asbestos removal, the risk of asbestos fibre emission rapidly increases in the work zone. The exposure applies not only to contractors but also to users of buildings during and after the ...

The city and community groups reached a settlement in 2023. It included the city-wide air monitoring network, which Chicago ...

Pollution found in a tributary of the River Ure and River Ouse in North Yorkshire has been described as a “small-scale ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Americans are breathing more toxic air now than in the past quarter-century, a new report from the American Lung Association says.

Air in the U.S. has gotten cleaner for decades, adding years to people's lives and preventing millions of asthma attacks, but nearly half of Americans still live with unhealthy air pollution, a new ...

Almost half of everyone who lives in the United States breathes unhealthy levels of air pollution, according to the American Lung Association’s annual State of the Air report, released Wednesday.

Cleaning up a polluted river sounds like the kind of thing officials would thank people for. But a UK barrister and ...

For many people with asthma, air-quality advisories are harbingers of worsening symptoms. But for reasons science has ...

Claire Carlson ’23 was a 2022-23 Environmental Ethics Fellow with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. Improper dumping and waste disposal from corporations impacts the ...

Florida International University scientists have, for the first time, detected a toxic tire-derived chemical in Florida ...