Pollution News

Warsaw - The United Nations lead on climate change has called for the remaining global coal reserves to be left untapped in a bid to reduce pollution levels.

There has been a long-standing debate on how pollution affects climate warming. Climatologists have always thought that pollution, through a process called convection caused bigger thunderclouds. Instead, they have learned it's just the opposite.

A new study revealed how Americans living close to busy highways or roads are more likely to contract various diseases compared to those living far from congested streets.

Boulder - While the nation may not have been watching at all, it certainly was not paying much attention when industry developed a way to make the U.S. the world’s leading energy producer again.

San Francisco - Alarming figures suggest that that toxic remnants of the infamous gold rush will seep into San Francisco area waterways for millennia.

Nitrogen from fertilizers may persist in soil for 80 years, according to a new report. This means that fertilizer applied today could still be around in 2093.

One of northeastern China's largest cities was brought to its knees today, a casualty of a thick, choking smog. The airport and schools were closed, and traffic came to a stand-still. Officials say the cloud of dense pollution could last another 24 hours.

While it’s something many people have assumed, it’s now been officially proven that outdoor air pollution is the leading environmental cause of cancer.

Dieting but not losing weight? The answer might rest partly on levels of environmental pollution, according to a new research report.

Pathogenic bacteria are residing in the masses of plastic debris that float over large areas of the world's oceans. Scientists have named this ecological hazard the "Plastisphere."