Browsing: pollution

Millions of Britons face a higher risk of stroke or heart failure because of dirty air where they live.People living in areas of the UK with…

Efforts to improve the climate could reduce the number of deaths caused by air pollution in the US by about 6,000 people a year by 2030,…

Fine-particulate air pollution can drive devastating forms of dementia by triggering the formation of toxic clumps of protein that destroy nerve cells as they spread through…

Toxic, carcinogenic pollution that pours from 25,000 road outflows into rivers in England is being ignored by politicians and regulators, MPs have been told.Road runoff containing…

When a team of scientists embarked two years ago on a $1m landmark study of Iowa’s persistent water-quality problems, they knew that the findings would be…

The UK’s largest lake, Lough Neagh, is on course to record its worst year of potentially toxic algal blooms to date, as rescue plans remain deadlocked.As…

Scientists have shown that U.S. oil and gas drilling sites are not just leaking methane but also a host of toxic chemicals that pose an urgent…

Air pollution from oil and gas causes more than 90,000 premature deaths and sickens hundreds of thousands of people across the US each year, a new…

Scientists are calling for a new global regime to address air pollution caused by the space industry.Prof Eloise Marais’s team at University College London (UCL) began…

Urban birds stay up significantly later than their rural counterparts, according to research that highlights the impact of light pollution on wildlife.The study, based on recordings…