Did you know exposure to air pollution can severely damage your brain healthy as well? Read on to know what it does to your ...

Results from a new study suggest that long-term exposure to air pollution leads to increased risk in dementia in Denmark. "We also find association with noise, but this seems to be explained by air ...

When temperatures climb, the cardiovascular system works harder to keep the body cool by redirecting blood flow from the core ...

Nitrogen pollution could intensify global water scarcity threefold by 2050, scientists warn in a recently published paper. In addition, “newly emerging pollutants,” such as microplastics, heavy metals ...

Air pollution is a major challenge to public health and the environment. Responsible for millions of premature deaths each ...

September 7 is the International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies. Each year, an estimated seven million people around the world are killed by effects from air pollution, which include cancer, strokes, ...

Our ancestors could look up and see the Milky Way—our galaxy—as a large band of white light stretching across the sky. Because of light pollution, that's no longer the case. One study estimated that ...

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), approximately 99% of the global population breathes air that exceeds recommended pollution limits, contributing to over 7 million premature deaths ...

Tracy J. Wholf is a senior coordinating producer of climate and environmental coverage for CBS News and Stations, based in New York. When the Environmental Protection Agency was formed in 1970, its ...

A new study highlights how a combination of environmental stressors -- namely plastic pollution and seawater flooding -- can increase the threats faced by plants in some of the planet's critical ...