The annual State of Global Air Report was published on Tuesday by the Health Effects Institute (HEI) and it found that over 95 percent of the world's population is breathing unhealthy air. Long-term ...

According to research published in The Lancet last week, polluted air, water and soil caused nine million premature deaths across the globe in 2015. The vast majority of them occurred in low and ...

Receding glaciers, growing cities, and expanding agriculture threaten the highest navigable lake in the world. Lake Titicaca, the largest freshwater lake in South America, straddles the border between ...

Air pollution refers to a wide range of gases, liquids, and solids suspended in the atmosphere. Known to have harmful effects on the respiratory and cardiovascular systems, these contaminants are now ...

Industrial and small scale pollution has had a negative impact on the biodiversity in ecosystems and public health for centuries, but has substantially increased within the last 200 years. There are ...

Next time you’re cruising Amazon for an air purifier, consider heading to your local nursery instead. Thirty years ago, NASA studied houseplants as a way to help clean the air on the space station.

Lead exposure is one of the most urgent yet overlooked development challenges of our time. It affects millions of people worldwide — especially children — causing irreversible health damage and ...

Some of the consequences of light pollution are immediate and obvious—for example, a moth that flies into a streetlamp may die on impact. But there are also less visible, possibly more damaging ...

Architects Andrea Kubna and Ondrej Lipensky aim to turn the once heavily polluted Vltava river into a wading pool. Infographic of the Day: The World’s Most Environmentally Damaging Industries A ...