Modern society is increasingly threatened by mounting air pollution, as well as the occurrence of multiple chronic illnesses in the same individual. Multimorbidity is defined as the co-occurrence of ...

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Getting rid of air pollution could accelerate climate change, according to new research. Air pollution, a global scourge that kills millions of people a year, is shielding us from the full force of ...

Plastic bags tangled in trees. Takeout containers scattered along roadsides. Bottles clogging streams and waterways and washing up on beaches. Across the United States, plastic waste and pollution ...

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I recently attended a talk where the speaker said that waste in the U.S. is deeply connected to environmental justice. I hadn’t really thought about trash that way before.

In 1996 Captain Charles Moore, a citizen scientist and founder of the Algalita Marine Research and Education Foundation, stumbled upon what came to be known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch -- a ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- Air quality and air pollution have never been more top of mind as we deal with the impacts of far-away fires. "There's definitely a lot of people not only interested in air pollution ...

This article was originally published on Environmental Health News. Exposure to air pollution has a significant impact on rates of cancers typically associated with smoking, according to a recent ...

Thick plantings of particulate-guzzling-and pollution blocking trees are coming to West Oakland next month. The Prescott Greening project — which has been in the works for over a decade — is finally ...

Vincent Gauci receives funding from or has received funding from the Natural Environment Research Council, The Royal Society, Spark Climate Solutions, Axa Research Fund, Defra. Lu Shen receives ...