If humans stopped emitting air pollution, an astonishing 5.6 million premature deaths per year due to global outdoor air pollution could be prevented, according to research published Monday.

By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA (Reuters) -Wildfires likely to have been made more frequent by climate change made significant ...

Background sound levels at more than half of U.S. protected areas are doubled because of human noise pollution, scientists say.

Air pollution reduces the average life span globally by 2.3 years, making it the "greatest external threat to human life expectancy," according to the annual Air Quality Life Index report ...

If successful, the repeal could strip away the federal government’s most powerful way to control the country’s planet-warming pollution and fight climate change.

Furthermore, species from the ocean mix with human pollution to produce even more air pollution; none of this is currently included in air quality predictions or climate models.

She believes the lizards probably have many more urban adaptations including color, claw, tail shape and egg-laying behavior.

As acid rain is directly caused by human pollution and amplified by global warming, it is another significant concern for what could potentially happen to Earth if we are not able to get control ...

Increasing human presence in Antarctica is causing more snow melt — bad news for a frozen world already battling the effects of human-caused global warming.

Marine biologists have been sounding the alarm about ocean pollution since the 1950s. Up until then, many scientists believed that the ocean was large enough to dilute any human waste and protect ...

Ocean pollution is widespread, worsening, and poses a clear and present danger to human health and well-being. But the extent of this danger has not been widely comprehended — until now. Our ...