A new study led by researchers at UCL and the Francis Crick Institute has demonstrated for the first time how air pollution can cause lung cancer in people who have never smoked. The research found ...

Air pollution can increase the risk of serious bacterial infections, with the timing and severity depending on the strain ...

In the 1990s, residents of Mexico City noticed their dogs acting strangely — some didn’t recognize their owners, and the animals’ sleep patterns had changed. At the time, the sprawling, ...

Good morning and welcome to The Climate 202! Happy Friday. If you need a laugh this weekend about something other than speakers, we recommend this article about comedians who have tried to make ...

London, Apr 5 (Prensa Latina) Air pollution could cause lung cancer not by mutating DNA, but by creating an inflamed environment that encourages proliferation of cells with existing cancer-driving ...

Everyone knows that air pollution is bad for health, but how bad depends a lot on who you are. People of different races and ethnicities, education levels, locations and socioeconomic situations tend ...

North Sea oil and gas extraction can cause pollution to spike by more than 10,000% within half a kilometer around off-shore sites, a study has found. The University of Essex, Natural History Museum ...

A research team from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology has shown in a new study that ants returning from habitats affected by air pollution are attacked when they re-enter the colony. The ...

As Delhi-NCR’s pollution season approaches, rising AQI could mean more than breathing trouble. Can polluted air trigger ...

The annual global death toll from long-term exposure to fine particulate outdoor air pollution may be significantly higher than previously thought, according to a new study. That’s because mortality ...

Bioenergy is often seen as a more environmentally-friendly alternative to other forms of energy generation. But the truth is that it can actually be quite harmful to the environment. Bioenergy has a ...

Pharmaceutical pollution is the contamination of the environment with pharmaceutical compounds, which can include a wide range of substances such as antibiotics, hormones, painkillers, antidepressants ...