Despite decades of progress, the air quality in the United States has started to decline over the past few years, according to data in the Environmental Protection Agency's 2024 "Our Nation’s ...

Lung cancer among never-smokers is rising worldwide. In one U.S. study of 12,000 lung cancer patients, the share of people who didn’t smoke rose from 8 to 15 percent over twenty years. A British ...

An international study found that air pollution leads to more cancer-related genetic changes than secondhand smoke.

Research from the NIH’s National Cancer Institute, an agency beleaguered by funding cuts and censorship, finds that ...

Exposure to air pollution, other contaminants and traditional herbal medicines may be contributing to the development of lung ...

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 ...

In what looks like a pristine, remote mountain region, tiny pieces of plastic pollution were found raining down from the sky—raising questions about the global extent of plastic pollution—a ...

A new study reveals that air pollution, traditional herbal medicines and other environmental exposures are linked to genetic ...

Extreme heat is making air pollution worse, scientists say. And President Trump’s regulatory rollbacks could drive air ...