A UVA study uses satellite data to show that air pollution from industrial swine farms in Eastern North Carolina disproportionately affects marginalized communities.

The expansion of the Roman empire to Greece 2,100 years ago coincided with a rise in lead pollution as a by-product of an ...

Melbourne researchers have discovered crucial new information about how microbes consume huge amounts of carbon monoxide (CO) ...

Researchers have discovered crucial new information about how microbes consume huge amounts of carbon monoxide (CO) and help reduce levels of this deadly gas.

Over the past 150 years or so, atmospheric lead pollution has largely resulted from burning fossil fuels, particularly the ubiquitous use of leaded gasoline starting in the 1920s—a practice that ...

Atmospheric chemistry is just one example ... In the meantime, places with poor wintertime air quality could see particulate ...

- Thick blanket of smog covers Kathmandu valley due to air pollution and the recent forest fires in many parts of the country, on Friday, March 26, 2021. Photo: Skanda Gautam/THT The pollution level ...

DRI scientists have previously used atmospheric pollution records preserved in Arctic ice cores to identify periods of lead pollution throughout the Roman Empire, and now new research expands on ...

Understanding these dynamics is crucial for developing effective policies and interventions to mitigate the adverse effects of atmospheric pollution. One of the most pressing issues in atmospheric ...

Severe atmospheric rivers ... A long-standing belief held by many engineers that “the solution to pollution is dilution” simply isn’t accurate, she said. “It has been the mantra for ...

Both scenarios resulted in similar estimates of atmospheric lead. “The findings are that this lead pollution resulted in clear effects, not only for the air, but also for blood lead levels and ...

Flying through Bangkok’s cloudless blue skies, a small aircraft sprays a white mist over a thick haze of pea soup smog below.