Imagine being told you cannot go outside for the rest of the day, or the week. For children with asthma and other diseases, that is probably what the doctor should order. According to the World Health ...

Along the West Coast, we take pollution very seriously! We banned paper bags to stop “killing the trees.” We went to economical, thin plastic bags, then we banned plastic bags because too many of them ...

Climate change and air pollution (blue box) jointly affect the food system (yellow box) via intricate interactions. In turn, through greenhouse gas and air pollutant emissions, the food system makes a ...

Nitrogen is an essential element for living organisms, needed to build DNA, proteins and chlorophyll. Although nitrogen makes up nearly 80% of the air we breathe, it’s availability to plants and ...

Many human activities release pollutants into the air, water and soil. These harmful chemicals threaten the health of both people and the ecosystem. According to the World Health Organization, air ...

Now, they are calling on the world’s leaders to initiate protections so this ancient air-cleaning process can be maintained.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jamie Hailstone is a U.K-based reporter, who covers sustainability. Freight shipping containers are stacked and ready for ...

"It's better than it used to be" is a phrase not uncommon around Pittsburgh. It's a reference to thick layers of pollution and smoke that belched from the smokestacks of steel mills and coal plants ...

When pollution plagues the Salt Lake Valley’s air, everyone in Flor Isabel’s family feels it in a magnified way. By day, it’s a concert of coughing and wheezing. By night, the tune turns into snores ...

Gas utilities and cooking stove manufacturers knew for decades that burners could be made that emit less pollution in homes, but they chose not to. That may may be about to change. (Sean Gladwell | ...

Editor’s Note: This story is one in a series of Black History Month stories that explores the role of resistance to oppression in the Black community. For Naeema Gilyard and other residents of cities ...