Plastics and the long-lasting chemicals they're made of are accumulating in our oceans, leaching into our farm fields and piling up in landfills. Plastic is floating ...

In 2012, Deborah Cory-Slechta at the University of Rochester, New York, received a “bucket of brains”. A colleague had been studying how air pollution around the university harms the hearts and lungs ...

Fine and ultrafine particles from road traffic are among the most harmful pollutants for health. They are also the most ...

Air in the U.S. has gotten cleaner for decades, adding years to people's lives and preventing millions of asthma attacks, but nearly half of Americans still live with unhealthy air pollution, a new ...

A new Canadian study found that long-term exposure to common air pollutants was linked to lower scores on tests of memory, ...

Calderón-Garcidueñas, today head of the Environmental Neuroprevention Laboratory at the University of Montana, points out that the damaged brains she documented through neuroimaging in young dogs and ...

Plastic pollution has become one of the most pressing environmental issues, thanks to the overwhelming rise in production of disposable plastic products. Plastic pollution is most visible in ...

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably picked up on a growing anxiety around plastic pollution. What does all this plastic pollution mean for the health of people and the planet? And ...

At the recent French-Speaking Pneumology Congress held in Marseille, France, between January 24 and 26, 2025, Olivier Brun, a pulmonologist at the Hospital Center of Perpignan in Perpignan, France, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover global and domestic health care and conservation. A recent policy debate in Washington caught my attention. Earlier this ...

Many studies have shown that the burden of air pollution in the United States disproportionately falls on racial minorities, especially Black Americans. In August, a federal judge barred the EPA and ...