A NASA satellite is now detecting air pollution with unprecedented accuracy and could transform public health.

Before environmental regulation, New York City struggled with severe pollution. The city's coastlines were often the sites of illegal dumping. Pollution regulations began after the Environmental ...

Every winter, a brown haze settles over northern India so thick that satellite images show the Indo-Gangetic Plain vanishing ...

Johannesburg's air quality has never really been measured systematically. Like many other cities across the globe, scientists ...

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At the recent French-Speaking Pneumology Congress held in Marseille, France, between January 24 and 26, 2025, Olivier Brun, a pulmonologist at the Hospital Center of Perpignan in Perpignan, France, ...

Cars on the road today are 99% cleaner than they were in 1970. Air quality in the United States is much, much better as a ...

During the first Trump administration, environmental rollbacks and a lack of pollution prevention efforts led to an estimated 20,000 deaths per year, according to the Environmenta ...