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UC San Diego study of global lung cancer shows mutations that lead to cancer are common in people who live in cities with bad air pollution. But cancer mutations are quite close to normal among ...
Billionaire Elon Musk's development of a supercomputer in Memphis is another environmental blow to a marginalized Black ...
Evansville has been called a sacrifice zone due to pollution hazards, and federal goals to lower environmental safeguards ...
Lung cancer cases are on the rise in non-smokers around the world, and air pollution could be an insidious, contributing ...
Analysis shows EPA rollbacks of the HON rule would put overburdened communities at risk and benefit chemical plants that ...
Know how a pocket-sized sensor is revolutionising air quality monitoring by detecting toxic pollutants in real time. This ...
What is PM2.5? Hazardous airborne particles and chemicals can come in a variety of forms, and from a variety of sources, even some natural ones. Wind-blown desert and mineral dust, wildfires, ...
The U.S. has one of the world’s most advanced systems to monitor air pollutants. Can it keep up with a changing climate?
Every year, more than 300,000 people die of lung cancer due to PM 2.5, and research suggests these pollution particles not only initiate cancer-causing genetic defects but drive tumor formation.
Breathing polluted air—even at levels considered “safe”—may quietly damage your heart. A new study using advanced MRI scans found that people exposed to more air pollution showed early signs of ...
Long-term air pollution exposure in adults, even at low levels, is linked to increased risk for pneumonia and other ALRIs requiring hospital care.
A new analysis shows high levels of fine-particulate air pollution causes more cancer mutations. A quarter of all lung cancer cases worldwide are among people who never smoked. Meanwhile, websites for ...