UK health study reveals the physical impact of air pollution on the body, as data shows 99% of the population is exposed to ...

Every night, cities around the country light up with street lights, office and building lights, and parking lot lights ...

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 ...

I grew up in rural Colorado, deep in the mountains, and I can still remember the first time I visited Denver in the early 2000s. The city sits on the plain, skyscrapers rising and buildings extending ...

Some bugs, such as aphids, capitalize on pollution-burdened plants with lowered defenses. These insects increase with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin denied a report from The New York Times that his department will no ...

By 2050, the combined impacts of climate change and human activity on the ocean could be two to three times greater than they are today. Without urgent efforts to reduce these threats, a new study ...

When Rachel Carson wrote the environmental classic Silent Spring in 1962, she warned that unchecked human impacts might ...

The seas have long sustained human life, but a new UC Santa Barbara study shows that rising climate and human pressures are pushing the oceans toward a dangerous threshold. Vast and powerful, the ...

Climate change, pollution, and fishing are pushing oceans closer to their limits at an unprecedented rate. The pressure of that human impact is expected to double by 2050, according to a new study.

A man in glasses looks into a fish tank in which fish of many colors are swimming. Ecotoxicologist Bob Wong studies how fish change when exposed to the antidepressant medication fluoxetine. Credit: ...