Discover how scientists measure the air around us to track pollution and diagnose disease, including cancer and diabetes.

California regulators last updated landfill pollution standards in 2010. An activist says the latest effort to revisit them is inadequate.

Antarctica may seem pristine and almost devoid of life, but there's plenty of chemistry going on. Victoria Atkinson explains ...

The smaller the particles, the more worrying they are. Particulate matter measuring 10 micrometers or less in diameter — a fraction of the width of a human hair — is referred to as PM10, and it is ...

Lung cancer among never-smokers is rising worldwide. In one U.S. study of 12,000 lung cancer patients, the share of people who didn’t smoke rose from 8 to 15 percent over twenty years. A British ...

If you check weather.gc.ca/firework/firework, you can see that smoke from the wildfires has spread over a wide area of Canada ...

Ozone pollution isn’t just a summer story anymore. In parts of northern China, high ozone levels are now appearing during ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris named two anti-pollution advocates to the Memphis and Shelby County Air Pollution Control Board. The two nominees are KeShaun Pearson, the ...

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence venture, xAI, is facing a formidable legal battle over its massive “Colossus” supercomputer data center in Memphis, Tennessee. On June 17, the NAACP and ...

A leading Leeds researcher who played an important role in Britain’s response to the pandemic has collaborated on a major new report highlighting growing evidence of health risks from air pollution.

Brain development in the womb is affected by the mother’s level of exposure to air pollution, researchers have found, although it’s not clear whether the brain structure ...