MACH Engineering reports that industrial water pollution remains a significant issue in the U.S., with many businesses exceeding pollution limits, adding that effective strategies can help mitigate ...

Scientists are exploring a surprisingly simple way to clean up diesel engines: adding tiny droplets of water to the fuel. During combustion, the water rapidly vaporizes, triggering micro-explosions ...

It can accumulate pollutants such as heavy metals. Scientists have used moss for decades as a bioindicator – a living ...

A new NOAA study published today in the journal Science Advances about four decades of tropical cyclones reveals the surprising result that reducing particulate air pollution in Europe and North ...

Fossil fuel air pollution already causes 91,000 premature U.S. deaths each year, according to a recent study. A new Princeton-led study finds that ambitious climate policies could prevent 6,000 deaths ...

A new study says people living in heavily polluted areas face a higher risk of severe medical conditions, including permanent blindness in children. Researchers in China assessed 30,000 schoolchildren ...

Imagine you love cherry cheesecake, and you’re happy to find out that your local bakery makes the delicious, decadent dessert every Saturday. But they only make a certain amount per week; after that, ...

A United Nations special rapporteur warned Friday that air pollution is contributing to widespread human rights violations worldwide, calling on governments to take urgent action to reduce pollution ...

Colorado continues making headlines for having some of the worst pollution in the entire country. Fourteen counties, including Denver, Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Jefferson, Weld and Larimer, received ...

(The Hill) – Particulate air pollution is reducing life expectancy by 2.2 years globally compared to a hypothetical world that meets international health guidelines, a new report has found. Worldwide ...

In 1996 Captain Charles Moore, a citizen scientist and founder of the Algalita Marine Research and Education Foundation, stumbled upon what came to be known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch -- a ...

EDF’s Air Tracker combines air pollution data and weather forecasting to reveal what pollutants are in the air and where they may be coming from.