Considering environmental factors is critical to understanding what drives the physical and cognitive declines, the researchers find in broad survey.

The president gave roughly 100 chemical plants, ore processors and other facilities two more years to comply with recently ...

Pollution can also more generally affect insect reproduction and survival; putting all these impacts together, a recent study estimates that air pollution causes a more than 30 percent reduction ...

Top experts from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard said they have found an effective process to turn air pollution into power in an astounding breakthrough with the ...

New research from the University of Osaka has uncovered how air pollution impairs the lungs' self-cleaning system by damaging cilia on airway cells. The study also identifies a potential treatment ...

Toxic Air Pollution in India and Pakistan Is “a National Disaster” When the air quality index hits 300, it’s considered an emergency. Delhi’s reached 1,185 this past week.

Virginia is beginning again to regulate carbon dioxide pollution by electric power plants, but the state wants to start with a stricter limit as a baseline for future cuts in emissions. The State ...

The impact of air pollution on the kidneys is an emerging area of research. ... This process causes an imbalance between free radicals and antioxidants that can impair kidney function.