Pollutants can harm human health and enter the body through the air people breathe, the water they drink and the food they eat. Yet even as evidence of widespread exposure has been found in ...

New Jerseyans continue to breathe some of the nation’s worst air — partly due to emissions from refineries, power plants, car traffic and wildfires. But experts told NJ Advance Media there’s also a ...

Researchers have uncovered unexpectedly high levels of silicone-based pollutants called methylsiloxanes floating through the atmosphere across cities, rural regions, and even forests. Much of the ...

Pinpointing pollutant sources is an important part of the ongoing battle to improve air quality and to understand its impact on climate. Scientists using NASA data recently tracked the path and ...

Unlike most other pollutants, particulate matter (PM) cannot be characterized by the space- and time-variations of the mass concentrations of a single compound. Important factors influencing PM ...

Public concern about air pollution has traditionally centred on chemical pollutants such as vehicle exhaust and industrial emissions found in fine particulate matter (PM2.5).

Delhi launches Road RADAR for real-time air pollution monitoring, deploying surveyors to identify hotspots across the city.

In the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), a chemical is considered persistent (from an atmospheric standpoint) if it has been measured at locations distant from sources of ...