Researchers found that chomping on a single stick of chewing gum can release up to thousands of shards of microplastics.

Pollution-related deaths numbered 1.67 million in 2019, according to a new report led by Boston College researchers. Economic losses were in the billions. Pollution takes many forms in India, ...

Similarly, the study of natural archives such as sediment cores, corals and shells reveals the history of pollution incidents in marine ecosystems. The IAEA’s Radiometrics Laboratory uses for example ...

"Requiring companies to publicly disclose their fenceline monitoring results and to find and fix benzene pollution sources ... this is an example of a success story of regulations working to ...

The World Bank reported Thursday that air pollution claims the lives of around 5.7 million people each year, with 95 percent ...

Why is plastic pollution a problem? Plastic pollution is the most visible example of the havoc we’re causing to our planet. From our local beaches to the remote Arctic, it is choking our oceans and ...

Experts said the real amount of air pollution might be far greater as many parts of the world lack the monitoring needed for ...

However, some animals are adapted for surviving in polluted conditions for example blood worms and sludge worms. Presence of these species indicates there is a high level of water pollution.

For example, treatment of a single cancer patient costs an average of $150,000 (6). So it’s easy to see how the costs of pollution-related diseases can pile up quickly. The healthcare costs that ...

She notes that there are many measures being employed to reduce microplastic pollution—for example, rain gardens, landscape sites which absorb polluted stormwater. "Rain gardens installed by ...

Experts said the real amount of air pollution might be far greater as many parts of the world lack the monitoring needed for more accurate data. In Africa, for example, there is only one ...