Results from a new study suggest that long-term exposure to air pollution leads to increased risk in dementia in Denmark. "We also find association with noise, but this seems to be explained by air ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nearly everyone in the U.S. lives within one mile of a river, but half of the rivers across the country have unsafe levels of ...

Our ancestors could look up and see the Milky Way—our galaxy—as a large band of white light stretching across the sky. Because of light pollution, that's no longer the case. One study estimated that ...

Air Pollution: Pollution is currently wreaking havoc across the world. Now, a new disease caused by it has been discovered. Let us tell you what diseases it causes and how dangerous they are. Effects ...

In an effort to reduce copper levels and lead pipe corrosion, public water systems in the United States sometimes dose their water with phosphate. Although this practice can prevent humanitarian ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Nitrogen pollution could intensify global water scarcity threefold by 2050, scientists warn in a recently published paper. In addition, “newly ...

Air pollution has far-reaching consequences, not only for human health but also for the natural world. Birds, with their delicate respiratory systems and intricate ecological roles, are particularly ...

Performing medical tests on colonies of herring gulls, black-crowned night herons and Caspian terns to see whether pollution is contributing to their health problems and low population numbers. For ...

Say the word pollution, and what comes to mind? Plumes of smoke rising from smokestacks? A brown haze over the city? Oily streaks of colored swirls on the surface of streams and rivers? Trash on the ...