NEW YORK - Toxic pollution continues to undermine the enjoyment of fundamental human rights worldwide, a UN expert said today."Thirty years after the ...

Plastics don’t just pose a threat to the marine environment and people’s health; they jeopardize basic human rights. This is the framing that a growing number of legal experts, policymakers, and ...

As final global plastics treaty negotiations take place in Geneva, The Lancet elevates plastic pollution as a grave, global threat to human health. “To those meeting in Geneva: Please take up the ...

Pollution has long been indirectly linked with dementia. Now scientists wonder if it may be physically reshaping the brain.

I grew up in rural Colorado, deep in the mountains, and I can still remember the first time I visited Denver in the early 2000s. The city sits on the plain, skyscrapers rising and buildings extending ...

The DNA in a single cup of water can track wildlife, monitor pollution and survey pathogens in waterways and their surroundings, all at the same time. DNA is contained in each cell of every plant, ...

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin on Sunday defended the Trump administration’s move to repeal the so-called endangerment finding that planet-warming pollution from fossil fuels ...

Church Aid Incorporated (CAI) has launched the Liberia Water Justice Forum, with its Board Chairman, Bishop Kortu Brown, ...

“This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.” Plastics don’t just pose a threat to the marine environment and people’s health; they jeopardize basic human ...