The combined effects of climate change and air pollution have led to direct declines in precipitation in the U.S. Southwest, ...

A combination of sewage overflows and coastal winds could be sending billions of airborne microplastic particles into the ...

Ozone pollution is invisible,” says Kai Chen, PhD, co-faculty director of the Yale Center on Climate Change and Health, and that’s exactly why it is so dangerous. On July 9, air quality alerts ...

New research on nanoplastics pollution and ‘chemicals of concern’ underscores the need for a strong agreement when ...

Smoke travels hundreds of miles to harm air quality far from the fire, according to the EPA’s Wildfire Smoke and Your Patient ...

UC San Diego study of global lung cancer shows mutations that lead to cancer are common in people who live in cities with bad air pollution. But cancer mutations are quite close to normal among ...

With 7 of its ambitious rules for cars, trucks and trains repealed, California officials must find new ways to clean up the ...

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

What is PM2.5? Hazardous airborne particles and chemicals can come in a variety of forms, and from a variety of sources, even some natural ones. Wind-blown desert and mineral dust, wildfires, ...

Every year, more than 300,000 people die of lung cancer due to PM 2.5, and research suggests these pollution particles not only initiate cancer-causing genetic defects but drive tumor formation.