This metric captures the risk pollution poses to health per capita, using a risk score from the Environmental Protection Agency that measures long-term, chronic human health effects of toxic ...

A pioneering study has introduced an innovative framework to evaluate global inequalities in Particulate Matte (PM2.5) ...

1998). For years, scientists have argued that sprawling urban and suburban development patterns are creating negative impacts including habitat fragmentation, water and air pollution, increased ...

Air pollution effects go far beyond the lungs and can create memory loss in the brain, and contribute to other diseases, ...

Rather than killing otherwise healthy people, air pollution tends to aggravate the effects of heart and lung diseases, so working out the death toll is not straightforward. People exposed to air ...

Aside from the loss of human lives and damage to properties, war significantly impacts the environment through various ways including pollution of air, water an ...

Waste occurs at every stage of the garment manufacturing process, harming wildlife, degrading land ... The pollution introduced by the fast fashion industry results in devastating impacts to both ...

At current rates plastic is expected to outweigh all the fish in the sea by 2050. Plastics pollution has a direct and deadly effect on wildlife. Thousands of seabirds and sea turtles, seals and other ...

The Roman Empire's pervasive influence once reached across land, sea ... Using modern evidence of lead pollution and its health effects, the international team calculates that lead exposure ...