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 ...

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 ...

Air pollution has an alarming effect on global health. In 2019, it was responsible for 4.2 million global deaths. Inhaling air pollution harms health in many different ways beyond simply having ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Initiative has ...

Sometimes the environment becomes dark and murky. During such times friends also fall sick. — A migrant worker in Dubai, September 2023 Even as the United Arab Emirates (UAE) government works to ...

A thick, toxic smog has shut down life in Pakistan's second largest city, Lahore, home to more than 14 million residents. Schools, offices and public spaces are closed. In a statement, he said, "Young ...

Nitrogen is an essential element for living organisms, needed to build DNA, proteins and chlorophyll. Although nitrogen makes up nearly 80% of the air we breathe, it’s availability to plants and ...

Does the prediction that there could be “more plastic than fish in the ocean by 2050” concern you? How about reports that “we eat a credit card’s worth of plastic per week”? These are some of the ...

Untangling the relationship between air pollution and the brain is complex. In the modern industrial world, we are all exposed to literally thousands of contaminants. And not every person exposed to a ...