The ability of bacteria to remove pollutants from soil, water, mine waste and other environments could be supercharged by a ...

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

Scientists at the University of Warwick have cracked a long-standing problem in air pollution science: how to predict the movement of irregularly shaped nanoparticles as they drift through the air we ...

In a controversial new study, scientists are claiming that trees in Los Angeles are contributing to the city’s air pollution, challenging conventional notions about the positive role they play in ...

Air pollution is the largest environmental risk to public health. Outdoor air pollution causes around four million premature deaths globally each year, while a further three million deaths are linked ...

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 ...

UCLA researchers have launched 20 new air pollution monitors across northwest Los Angeles County to better understand how much fine ash and coarse dust are being kicked up in the Palisades fire burn ...

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Citizens are taking water testing into their own hands as sewage spills in rivers and on beaches increasingly get reported.