Air pollution silently reduces global cognitive potential, driving inequality and threatening brain health across all generations.

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 ...

Plastics don’t just pose a threat to the marine environment and people’s health; they jeopardize basic human rights. This is the framing that a growing number of legal experts, policymakers, and ...

Human activity is contributing to pollution that is affecting our health. According to WHO estimates, atmospheric air pollution is estimated to cause 4.2 million premature deaths worldwide per year.

As global pollution edged upward in 2021, so did its burden on human health, according to new data from the Air Quality Life Index released this week. If the world were to permanently reduce fine ...

This report may not be the breath of fresh air climate experts hoped. Air pollution reduces the average life span globally by 2.3 years, making it the “greatest external threat to human life ...

A grassroots environmental organization in the Cape Fear River basin of coastal North Carolina wants the United Nations to intervene in a decades-long pollution fight and declare its ongoing PFAS ...

Your donation today will help MinnPost continue to report on the news you need. We can’t see it, and coroners rarely report it, but air pollution caused by burning fossil fuels prematurely kills an ...

As final global plastics treaty negotiations take place in Geneva, The Lancet elevates plastic pollution as a grave, global threat to human health. “To those meeting in Geneva: Please take up the ...

New research finds that human pollution influences the severity of red tides more directly than scientists previously understood. The connection sheds light on the need for better water-quality ...

Tarik, age 42, lives in a village adjacent to a decades-old coal power plant in Bosnia and Herzegovina. On the day we visited, Bosnian cities were some of the most polluted places on Earth. Describing ...