While braking in your car may protect you from accidents and save your life, it could actually be harmful to your health in other ways, new research has found. Particles released into the air as ...

Drinking water in plastic bottles contains countless particles too small to see. New research finds that people who drink ...

Smoke permeates everything and impacts everyone. The visible stew of carbon and particulates typically from emission sources travels in the air, shrouds buildings, suffocates birds, and penetrates ...

Professor and Chair, Department of Public Health Science and Community Medicine, University of Connecticut The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced a new standard for protecting the ...

A new study has measured the levels of indoor air pollution emitted by everyday home appliances, revealing which ones you might want to think twice about running. Led by a team from Pusan National ...

It's tough not to run across an article linking – by association – air pollution with adverse health effects. Over time scientists have focused more of their research on one component of our air: ...

Scientists are increasingly alarmed by the airborne particles routinely released by power plants, petrochemical companies, motor vehicles, concrete plants and other sources. Their concerns are so ...

When a CBS News medical correspondent claimed recently that we’re accumulating a plastic spoon’s worth of plastic in our brains, her colleagues looked horrified, and for good reason. Surely, that much ...

Long-term exposure to specific particulate matter components, such as PM2.5, including sulphate, ammonium, elemental carbon, ...