In a soft, faltering voice, her large brown eyes staring absently ahead, Winfrida Besa repeats "A-B-C-D" over and over as she tries to sing the ABCs. With her thin ...

It was already clear that pollution has had a devastating effect on air quality in dense cities like Beijing, where heavy smog days keep schoolchildren indoors. But a new report released by the World ...

The U.S. is marking Earth Day this week with EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin as the public face of a Trump administration plan to make our environment dirtier via deregulation, for example by allowing ...

Ocean pollution is quietly draining energy from seabirds’ cells, as mercury and forever chemicals disrupt mitochondria even ...

While visions of improved recreational options for the Blue Earth River may be a silver lining to the Rapidan Dam failure, the significant increase in pollution downstream is troubling at best and ...

This city of almost 300,000 people, 80 miles north of Zambia's capital of Lusaka, was identified by a 2022 U.N. report as a "sacrifice zone" — one of the most polluted places on the planet. Between ...

In some cases lead poisoning can even be fatal. This city of almost 300,000 people, 80 miles north of Zambia's capital of Lusaka, was identified by a 2022 U.N. report as a "sacrifice zone" — one of ...