A combination of hot temperature and high air pollution is associated with increased risk of suicide in the following days, ...

Air pollution has been convincingly linked to respiratory illnesses, while run-off from industries has not only diminished ...

A United Nations special rapporteur warned Friday that air pollution is contributing to widespread human rights violations worldwide, calling on governments to take urgent action to reduce pollution ...

Previous research has linked both heat and poor air quality individually to short-term increases in suicide risk. However, the new study examined how these factors interact with each other.

Microplastics have already found their way into every environment on our planet, but contamination from this pollution is expected to get increasingly worse. Microplastic pollution could more than ...

Researchers argue that exposure to fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) may affect cognitive function and intelligence, potentially causing large population-level losses in global IQ. Using ...

Microplastics, minute plastic particles less than 5 mm in diameter, have emerged as persistent pollutants across terrestrial, freshwater and marine environments. Their ubiquity has raised significant ...

Residents of Gidan Madara, behind Tradefair Complex in Minna, Niger State, have alleged life-threatening pollution from a factory which they claim has mutated into a full-scale plastics melting and ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Though the holiday season is here — with all the responsibilities it entails — some North Carolinians might consider adding one more thing to their to-do lists: weighing in on an EPA proposal that ...