Carbon dioxide (CO₂) pollution drives climate change, warming the planet and threatening human survival. Plants naturally ...

As climate change intensifies, a toxic legacy grows more dangerous in Soweto. Residents living beside an old mine dump face health problems as more floods and heatwaves worsen the dangers of mining ...

The air we breathe, the water we drink, the food that nourishes us – all are gifts of our planet. Humanity has drawn upon ...

The WHO has identified air pollution as the biggest environmental threat to human health globally. Each year, an estimated ...

From the grounds of a gas-fired power plant on the eastern shores of Canada, a little-known company is pumping a slurry of ...

The agency will no longer shut down “any stage of energy production,” absent an imminent threat, a new memo says, and will curtail efforts to cut pollution in poorer areas.

The Trump administration's blueprints for remaking the EPA outline 31 regulations to eliminate or significantly scale back.

When the Eaton fire raced through Altadena and surrounding areas in January, the unimaginable disaster killed 17 people and destroyed 9,400 homes, businesses, schools and houses of worship. While ...

THERE is no question as to the abuse that planet Earth has taken from human beings. From deforestation to air pollution, from fossil fuel damage to waterways made into sewers, from wanton cutting of ...

To make up for the loss, scientists from Caltech and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in La Cañada Flintridge set up a ...

Operators follow a 25-year rule: at this point, a satellite’s mission is deemed to have ended and it is lowered into the atmosphere where gravity and friction kicks in. While this helps clear space, ...

Air dryness is as critical to air quality as air dirtiness, explained David Edwards, adjunct professor of medicine at the ...