The fires that have ravaged Los Angeles over the past week were larger and burned hotter than they would have in a world without planet-warming fossil fuel pollution, a new analysis suggests.
A global commission of experts has called for a radical shift in how obesity is diagnosed, with less reliance on body mass index (BMI) to define disease. The commission, published in Lancet Diabetes ...
The goal of the Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Commission on the Definition and Diagnosis of Clinical Obesity was to develop an approach to this definition and diagnosis. The commission ...
A colleague had been studying how air pollution around the university harms the hearts and lungs of mice, and had asked Cory-Slechta to check the animals’ brains for damage. As a specialist in ...
A price on pollution is widely recognized as the most efficient means to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that are contributing to the more intense wildfires, droughts, and floods caused by climate ...
Heat domes intensify unhealthy air pollution from vehicles, industry, wildfires and dust storms. When a heat wave gripped New Delhi, India, last summer, temperatures soared, resulting in unhealthy ...
This graph shows the impact of light pollution on all 28 major astronomical observatories ... All captured in this time-lapse during the ESO Ultra High Definition Expedition. Credit: ESO/B. Tafreshi ...