Environmentally hazardous cigarette butts may ironically hold the answer to cleansing Australia's waterways of major metal ...

Researchers from the University of Birmingham and the University of Manchester found that just 60 minutes of exposure to ...

Using genes borrowed from bacteria, researchers have demonstrated fish and flies can be engineered to break down methylmercury and remove it from their bodies as a less harmful gas, offering new ways ...

A team of researchers say they want to look at what exposure to toxins from thousands of burned structures does to people ...

Alas, most things mean something for global warming.

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Everyone loves a breath of fresh air. Unfortunately, too often our air is anything but fresh.

In this episode of Weekly podcast, we speak to three experts who study different ways that people are affecting how plants and animals evolve – and how humanity has become the single biggest driver of ...

Our work shows that short-term exposure to air pollution can significantly impact upon several dimensions of cognition,” says coauthor Francis Pope, PhD, an environmental sci ...

Economic Survey 2024-25: Read live updates here The Economic Survey recognises air pollution as a major concern for north India, especially for people in the Delhi NCR region where unhealthy air ...

Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy - and, it turns out, lead pollution. Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland Greece and the Aegean ...

Lead pollution is dangerous now and it was dangerous in ancient times. Earlier this year, another study linked lead air pollution in the Roman Empire with a drop of up to 3 IQ points in ancient ...