Plastic pollution affects fundamental Earth systems, contributing to almost every pressing global environmental challenge.

Imagine a toddler born five years ago in Delhi, breathing the air each day, through their first laugh, first steps, and the first words. This child may already have been exposed to a hazardous amount ...

Many sources of air pollution also produce greenhouse gas emissions. We are taking steps to reduce air pollution and fight climate change through establishing national air quality standards, making ...

Urban air pollution is made up of a complex mix of hundreds of substances including toxic air pollutants and criteria air contaminants such as nitrogen oxides (NOx), sulphur oxides (SOx), ozone (O3) ...

It is that time of the year again when the air pollution issue takes centre stage in discussions ... collation and estimation for major public health problems as this is a continuous cycle. This is ...

Every winter, Delhi-NCR chokes as much on the promises to cut air pollution as on pollution itself. Year after year, as the capital city’s air turns into a toxic haze, same old pledges of clean ...

Related: Pollution from rocket launches and burning satellites could cause the next environmental emergency Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at Harvard and Smithsonian and a leading space debris ...

Air Quality and Health Regional Advisor at the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), about the health effects of air pollution and efforts to reduce exposure Air pollution is mainly caused by the ...

Motivated by a new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) standard for air pollution, the team employed a model for fine-scale air pollution mapping using real-world data, and it indicates ...

Dr. Rossetto said, "In this study, we were able to estimate pollution in the air where patients live, and this revealed a strong connection between higher levels of particulate matter and visits ...

'If we don't take any action now or in the next five years, it might be too late.' The growing number of rocket launches and satellites burning up in Earth's atmosphere could trigger the world's ...