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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

How plastic pollution harms wildlife. Millions of animals are killed by plastics every year, from birds to fish to other marine organisms. Nearly 2,100 species, including endangered ones, are ...

The programs, which operated at all 63 national parks, monitored air quality and collected data regarding the pollution levels to limit health risks in the parks and protect the wildlife.

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 ...

Scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and their colleagues at the University of California, San Diego, have found that ...

During the early 1970s, the air in many American cities was … brown. Pollution muddied clear skies and sickened people across the country. The Clean Air Act helped change that. But the law's ...