If you’re curious about the air quality in your city on a given day, you might pull up your phone’s weather app to see the air-quality index based on various pollutants. But that data, which tends to ...

From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Producer Paloma Beltran with Reid Frazier of The Allegheny Front. PALOMA BELTRAN: Even ...

Gases: These include nitrogen dioxide (NO₂) and ground-level ozone. “These are potent oxidisers,” says Dr Mahto. “When they ...

Pollution affects the whole planet, causing diseases and premature deaths all around the world. Even if you live in a seemingly green city, it still might not be 100% ecologically safe. We can try to ...

ORLANDO, Fla. – Usually, when you think about pollution you think about our air and waterways, but scientists are now focusing on a kind of pollution high up in the sky. It’s called light pollution ...

Air in the U.S. has gotten cleaner for decades, adding years to people's lives and preventing millions of asthma attacks, but nearly half of Americans still live with unhealthy air pollution, a new ...

More Black Americans are concerned about their local exposure to air pollution than other racial or ethnic groups, a new survey found. Gallup’s survey found 53 percent of Black adults are “very” or ...

The Biden administration’s decision to expand the availability of higher-ethanol fuel to provide relief at the pump to consumers is also likely to lead to new problems with pollution. The waiver ...

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Lackluster or altogether lacking details about pollution disproportionately impacts low-income and communities of color, according to a newly researched layer of environmental injustice from the ...

According to CPCB monitoring station data, numerous areas have recorded their air quality as being "severe" which raises ...

The impacts extend far beyond those of us who treasure the night sky. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Astronomers are once again ...