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Particles breathed by mothers pass to their vulnerable foetuses, with potentially lifelong consequences

The youngest-ever Harris County attorney is making the environment top priority. Next target: creosote contamination in Houston's Fifth Ward.

"Coca Cola is the largest producer of plastic and plastic waste in the world" says Grace O'Sullivan

Paddy straw burning in Punjab and Haryana is a major reason behind the alarming spike in air pollution levels in the national capital in October and November

Air pollution is preventing insects from sniffing out the crops and wildflowers that depend on them, according to new research.

Study finds minority ethnic people make up nearly half of populations in areas with very high NO2 or PM2.5 levels

Cars and highways are among the top contributors to ocean oil pollution, study finds

Climate change made Hurricane Ian’s most extreme rainfall about 10% worse than it would have been without two centuries of greenhouse gas pollution, according to a first-take analysis of the storm by two U.S. climate researchers. Their rapid analysis, which they shared on Twitter, looked only at rainfall, and not…

It started in July. The callers live in Gourd Island, and they were hoping to share an important message that they say was being ignored by their local authorities.