For most of my professional life I have thought about air pollution through the organs I know best. As a heart and lung surgeon, I spent decades studying how polluted air damages lungs, damages the ...

By Armin SorooshianThe waves of U.S. and Israeli bomb strikes in Tehran and Beirut, and Iran’s missile and drone attacks on neighboring countries ...

Missiles and bombs contain heavy metals and other toxic pollutants, which can linger for decades in air, soil and water.

An international research team used multiple global agroeconomic models and found that climate mitigation consistent with the 1.5 °C target could raise global hunger risk in 2050 by 17% (56 million ...

The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed weakening air pollution limits for a chemical used to sterilize medical ...

A combination of hot temperature and high air pollution is associated with increased risk of suicide in the following days, ...

The Biden era policy moved to reduce emissions by nearly 90 percent as the chemical, when exposed to it long-term ...

The outdoor department of the country’s premier respiratory treatment facility in the capital’s Mohakhali was so packed with patients that staffers were struggling to manage the crowd.

A recent study from a team of University of Utah researchers has found that higher temperatures and air pollution are linked to an increased suicide risk in the short term. These results offer ...

The waves of U.S. and Israeli bomb strikes in Tehran and Beirut, and Iran’s missile and drone attacks on neighboring countries in response, are damaging more than buildings – they are sending toxic ...

American Lung Association report focuses on improving community-based air monitoring in high pollution areas; West Oakland project serves as potential blueprint for other communities ...

The lawsuit challenges the Trump EPA’s new rule for pollution from gas-fired power plants that could mean more smog and soot in the air we breathe.