What does air pollution do to your body? Who is most at risk? What can you do about it? What even is air pollution? Pulmonologist Marc Sala, MD and associate professor at Northwestern Medicine, is ...

A large study adds to evidence everyday pollutants may shape brain health, but key questions about cause and effect remain.

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

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 ...

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 ...

The combustion of fossil fuels (coal, petroleum [oil], and natural gas) is the major source of both air pollution and the greenhouse-gas emissions driving climate change. The fetus, infant, and child ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nearly everyone in the U.S. lives within one mile of a river, but half of the rivers across the country have unsafe levels of ...

This story was originally published by Undark and is republished here through the Climate Desk partnership. When Susan Remmers moved into her home in Portland, Oregon, she thought she’d live there for ...

A new study led by University of Liverpool researchers has shown that the effects of pollutants can be transmitted over many generations in water fleas and may persist long enough to influence the ...

Performing medical tests on colonies of herring gulls, black-crowned night herons and Caspian terns to see whether pollution is contributing to their health problems and low population numbers. For ...