Extreme heat across much of the U.S. this week is triggering potentially unhealthy levels of air pollution, at least for those especially sensitive to dirty air, according to the Environmental ...

In the wake of Hurricane Harvey, Houston is expected to face a host of health challenges, including air pollution. Here are 5 facts about how air pollution affects people’s health. In the wake of ...

Air pollution has been declining for decades across the United States, yet most Americans still believe air pollution is a growing problem and a serious threat to their health. The reason: most ...

The threat posed by air pollution is more significant than many people may realize. According to the World Health Organization, almost 99 percent of the global population breathes air that exceeds ...

Pittsburgh's Action News 4 spoke with the CEO of a Texas company who has an idea to take some pollution out of steel mills and turn it into profit.In its first-generation technology, CarbonFree sucks ...

America has been getting rid of its industrial base and as a result pollution will tend to decrease in America. Where does it all go? Other countries should know the bitter lessons of pollution should ...

Very little attention is likely to be paid to a report by the General Accountability Office that says most drinking water in the U.S. is contaminated with pharmaceuticals, and most of those drugs are ...

The Back to Blue initiative aims to combat ocean pollution with a data-driven roadmap, targeting a pollution-free ocean by 2050 through global collaboration.

I am typing this story on a plastic keyboard, while sitting at a plastic desk, wearing plastic eyeglasses. Plastic is everywhere. Lightweight, versatile and inexpensive to produce, plastic helps our ...

After the Olympic Games officially begin on Aug. 5, Olympic sailors and swimmers will begin competing in Rio de Janeiro's Guanabara Bay, though some of them have been practicing there for the past few ...

The mustard hue of the Animas River in Colorado – the most visible effect of a mistake by the Environmental Protection Agency that dumped millions of gallons of pollutants into the water – is striking ...