The World Health Organisation (WHO) singles out air pollution as one of the greatest environmental threats to health, as it accounts for a high number of non-communicable diseases such as heart attack ...

Light pollution is reshaping ecosystems and human health. Discover how dark-sky initiatives protect nocturnal ecology and ...

Stronger standards would prevent hundreds of millions of pounds of pollution from reaching rivers and streams, helping to protect more than 22 million people “EPA’s preference for weak slaughterhouse ...

But the consolidation of the sector makes it increasingly hard for organizers to push for drinking water regulation. According to experts, local actions need to be paired with more federal regulation ...

Light pollution significantly affects our ability to view the night sky and poses a threat to future generations' access to the stars. This video delves into the dangers of light pollution, its ...

NCR's toxic air sparks warnings for children, the elderly and those with respiratory illness, veterinarians and animal ...

Over the past year, San Diego County has become an unlikely backdrop for a series of unsettling animal displacements. On May 22, the Murphy Canyon plane crash claimed six lives—all passengers aboard ...

Not long ago, one could gaze at the night sky and see the Milky Way. Light pollution, or artificial light at night, now significantly impedes our view of the Milky Way; air pollution contributes, too.

Dung beetle on top of its ball of dung. Source: Bernard Dupont/Wikimedia Commons When a fresh pile of dung hits the ground, it isn’t long before the dung beetles arrive. There are so many dung beetles ...

Animals that migrate face myriad threats to their survival, all of which have a common denominator: human activity. That’s according to a first-of-its-kind report published Monday by the Convention on ...