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

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 ...

Sunlight destroys the naturally occurring nitrate radical, so this process occurs only in hours of darkness. Measurements taken over Los Angeles by aircraft show that light pollution from cities ...

Days after choking smog blanketed China's capital, the country's premier-designate added his voice to appeals to curb the toxic haze, but he offered few specifics and said there was no quick fix.

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 ...