Jan. 31, 2025 — Low levels of traffic-related air pollution harms the liver and may raise the risk of metabolic-associated fatty liver disease, a new study in mice ... Wildfire Smoke Can Carry ...

Geoscientists conducted the analyses, which revealed that human activity ... Low-Level Traffic Air Pollution Linked to Liver Damage and Fatty Liver Disease Jan. 31, 2025 — Low levels of traffic ...

Every day, the equivalent of 2,000 garbage trucks full of plastic are dumped into the world's oceans, rivers, and lakes. Plastic pollution is a global problem. Every year 19-23 million tonnes of ...

Pollution-related deaths numbered 1.67 million in 2019, according to a new report led by Boston College researchers. Economic losses were in the billions. Pollution takes many forms in India, ...

Air pollution is a deadly public health threat, but some parts of Europe are at much higher risk than others. Air pollution is linked to lung cancer, heart and respiratory diseases, stroke ...

Wildfires contribute to harmful fine particle pollution, which is at levels bad for human health in the area even before the wildfires. The American Lung Association’s State of the Air report ...

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 ...

Human exposure to air pollution, worsened by seasonal fog, poses significant health threats, leading to premature deaths and diseases. Recent research links long-term exposure to neurodegenerative ...

It is the fundamental principle of toxicology that “dose makes poison.” It is common in air pollution epidemiologic studies to use ambient concentrations as a proxy for exposure or, more strictly ...

Researchers see a growing health danger from the vast plumes of pollution spawned by wildfires like the ones devastating Los Angeles. By Hiroko Tabuchi It kills more people each year than car ...

Pollution remediation is the removal of pollutants, including chemical substances and/or energy, that are judged to be having a negative impact on the environment. Frequent targets of remediation ...