Community-led research from UCSB’s Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory spans three years, four continents and eight countries to reveal the scale of river plastic waste and offer solutions to stop it at ...

The surging tide of microplastics is already an environmental and health threat, but as the world heats up — driving increasingly extreme weather — it’s transforming them into “more mobile, persistent ...

Steam and pollution emerge from a coal-fired power plant in Wyoming. The Environmental Protection Agency under President Trump is taking a new approach to regulating air pollution. In a reversal from ...

Farmworker Rajendra Kamble points to the white-tiled floor of his house whenever someone asks about his worsening health. By evening, the tiles turn grey with soot from the burning of agricultural ...

Worried about hair fall due to air pollution? How pollution damages your scalp, weakens hair follicles, and leads to hair loss. Here are natural ways to protect your hair and reduce pollution-related ...

Whether you live in a bustling city or a quiet rural area, pollution is an unavoidable part of life—and it can have a serious impact on both your health and athletic performance. During summer, air ...

“There was no warning, no conversation,” said Jane Clougherty, an environmental health scientist, who had a federal grant canceled earlier this year. Credit...Hannah Yoon for The New York Times ...

BBC health correspondent James Gallagher gets his blood analysed to understand how air pollution is killing us.

Whale sharks, already listed as endangered, face an array of human-induced threats such as fishing bycatch, vessel strikes, and habitat degradation among them. Pollution adds another, more insidious ...

AGAME OF I-spy involving only objects you can find in the middle of a road in London would be rather short. The little eye would spy motorised vehicles, cyclists and the occasional pedestrian ...

For years, the Environmental Protection Agency has assigned a dollar value to the lives saved and the health problems avoided through many of its environmental regulations. Now, that has changed. The ...