Exposure to one of the most toxic forms of mercury (methylmercury) may also disrupt the body's metabolic health, according to ...

Pollution, in its various forms, impacts the air, water and soil and has become a major driver of climate change and global warming. Humans are the leading contributor to pollution. The most ...

The World Meteorological Organization’s fifth annual Air Quality and Climate Bulletin, issued in September, called attention to the effects of air pollution on climate change and human and ecosystem ...

For all its promised benefits, the artificial-intelligence boom is likely to prove costly to public health and even lead to hundreds of deaths a year in the U.S. alone, and those ill effects are ...

High levels of air pollution can affect teams doing complex tasks, which holds implications for emerging economies. High levels of air pollution can harm performance of teams, which are vital for ...

Nearly half the nation’s children live in places with dangerous levels of air pollution, according to a report released Wednesday by the American Lung Association. That’s 33.5 million children—46 ...

A new study highlights how a combination of environmental stressors -- namely plastic pollution and seawater flooding -- can increase the threats faced by plants in some of the planet's critical ...

Dr. Janet Seabrook, Gary’s health commissioner, believes it’s important for the city to prioritize its residents’ health, she said at a steel pollution study announcement Wednesday. “I think it’s ...

This article was originally featured on Knowable Magazine. In the summers of 2018 and 2019, ecologist James Ryalls and his colleagues would go out to a field near Reading in southern England to stare ...