Pollution is a public health concern, and is considered to be any harmful material introduced to the environment. Many materials can cause such harm and are referred to as pollutants. Pollutants are ...

Exposure to wildfire smoke increases the odds of being diagnosed with dementia even more than exposure to other forms of air pollution, according to a landmark study of more than 1.2 million ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have found that women who were exposed to higher levels of nitrogen dioxide and coarse particulate matter — two ...

The report highlights East Yakima and Lower Yakima Valley as communities disproportionately impacted by air pollution.

Although there are more than 100 types of ILD with different etiologies, the usual trigger is most commonly smoking for ...

TOPSHOT - Indian schoolchildren cover their faces as they walk to school amid heavy smog in New Delhi on November 8, 2017. Delhi shut all primary schools on November 8 as pollution levels hit nearly ...

When Japan announced plans to release wastewater stored at the deactivated Fukushima power plant into the ocean over the summer, various countries such as China and South Korea reacted with concern ...