For many people with asthma, air-quality advisories are harbingers of worsening symptoms. But for reasons science has ...

A team of LSU researchers has pinpointed a specific type of lung cell that acts as a master switch for the harmful inflammation caused by a dangerous class of air pollutants—a discovery that opens the ...

A team of researchers investigating tens of thousands of citizen science observations of the night sky found that stars in the night sky are rapidly becoming harder to see due to human light pollution ...

Concern over global light pollution is growing. Astronomers are noticing its growing effect on astronomical observations, just as predicted in prior decades. Our artificial light, much of which is not ...

Chemical pollution research should be better integrated with other drivers of biodiversity loss and the assessment of human impacts on ecosystems, to more effectively guide management strategies for ...

University of Dayton students in a pilot biology course combated air pollution by speaking with local politicians, publishing letters in newspapers and studying the effects of dirty air on human ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. For most of human history, the stars blazed in an otherwise dark night sky. But starting around the Industrial Revolution, as artificial light ...