British researchers say data from more than 29 million people across four continents strengthens the evidence of a link ...

Long-term exposure to outdoor air pollution, including car exhaust emissions, can be linked to an increased risk of dementia, ...

About 57 million people worldwide have dementia, which occurs when nerve cells’ connections in the brain are lost or damaged.

People living in high pollution areas may rack up DNA glitches that trigger lung cancer, scientists suggest July 2 in Nature. Those glitches can include mutations that hobble the very genes that ...

The data highlight the scope of the troubling relationship being seen even in regions with relatively low levels of pollution ...

Prenatal exposure to ambient fine particulate matter and climatic factors, such as temperature and rainfall, are associated ...

UCLA researchers have launched a new network of air pollution monitors for northwest L.A. areas near the Palisades fire.

Federal actions like the 1970 Clean Air Act and the 1972 Clean Water Act helped regulate water and air pollution.

University of Utah researchers believe inflammation starts a months-long process that increases risk of aneurysm rupture.

On Friday at 11:44 a.m. EDT an air quality alert was reported by the National Weather Service in effect until Saturday at ...

Dr. Heaney released new information from those findings, that suggest the measures CSX put in place to reduce coal dust in ...

Prenatal exposure to air pollution could increase the risk of a preterm birth by at least 12% and a 5% higher risk of low ...