Pollution

Increasing air pollution is threatening the health of those living in the Indian city of New Delhi.

A new black carbon inventory shows that exposure to this pollutant is 130 percent greater than previous estimates have suggested, according to a new report.

Most carbon capture schemes are complex and expensive, but research on sea urchins has revealed a clean and cheap way to capture carbon and turn it into something useful.

Should lawmakers be holding closed-door meetings with industry representatives about pollution?

The current emergency in Shanghai comes at the end of a year in which China’s environmental crisis reached a tipping point.

Can the social cost of carbon reveal the true value of alternative energy?

An influx of nitrogen-based compounds, usually from industrial agriculture, fuel exhaust and power plants, is blanketing national parks around the country, potentially disrupting their ecosystem.

The chemical Erin Brockovich fought to protect people from decades ago still plagues California water.

More mercury will be released to the atmosphere and the oceans due to wildfires and violent storms, which are more likely to occur in a climate change scenario.

Small-scale gold mining is responsible for most current mercury pollution. But overall, the largest source of the heavy metal is "legacy mercury" emitted by humans decades or centuries ago.

Will China's new pollution controls tame the nation's notorious smog?

Thousands of dead eels have washed ashore in Southern China, though no one knows whether natural causes or pollution is to blame.

Air pollution may be responsible for more than 2 million deaths around the world each year, according to a new study. Air pollution has been linked with heart problems such as heart and lung diseases

Does the Keystone XL pipeline have environmental impacts beyond the risk of spills?

Is it time to limit carbon pollution?

As bacteria hit the beach this summer, people are getting sick.