Severe weather events, such as heavy rainfall, are on the rise worldwide. Reliable assessments of these events can save lives ...

The low HDI group, with comparatively lower amounts of industrial activity than in the other groups, has a local production that contributes to only 0·7% of global CO 2 emissions, and has the lowest ...

The combined effects of climate change and air pollution have led to direct declines in precipitation in the U.S. Southwest, ...

The current infrastructure also isn’t set up to fully account for the shifting behavior of wildfire smoke, which can travel ...

New Delhi continues to be the most polluted capital on Earth, but it's not the world's most polluted city. That title goes to ...

Smoke travels hundreds of miles to harm air quality far from the fire, according to the EPA’s Wildfire Smoke and Your Patient ...

New global research links air pollution to DNA mutations found in lung cancer among non-smokers, suggesting polluted air may ...

The global and national effort aimed at reducing burden of non-communicable diseases in general and kidney disease in particular should recognise fine particulate matter air pollution as a driver of ...

Within a decade, global carbon emissions from plastic production could outpace that of coal-fired power. However, while plastic pollution is ubiquitous, some people are more affected by it than others ...

The 2018 “ State of Global Air ” report — a collaboration between the research nonprofit Health Effects Institute in Boston and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of ...

This paper proposed a novel image-based air pollution monitor (IAPM) by incorporating local and global information in the self-adaptive multiscale transform domain, so as to achieve the timely and ...

Smoking, air pollution and several other factors have led to significant disparities in lung health across the U.S.