The invisible cloud you move through daily in city environments isn’t just air—it’s a complex cocktail of particulate matter, heavy metals, volatile organic compounds, and other pollutants that ...

Even at levels safe for humans, air pollution can disrupt the way some insects communicate with plants, and with each other.

Tracy J. Wholf is a senior coordinating producer of climate and environmental coverage for CBS News and Stations, based in New York. When the Environmental Protection Agency was formed in 1970, its ...

Indiana legislators tried to address pollution, PFAS, and plug-in solar bills this year. Here are the environmental bills ...

Studies are bolstering the idea that air pollution could increase your chances of developing dementia. But there are ways to ...

Scientists have linked the air pollution caused by the collection, transportation and refilement processes of oil and gas to more than 90,000 early deaths—and 10,000 pre-term births—each year in the ...

Breathing polluted air may do more than harm your lungs — it could also increase your risk of Alzheimer’s disease. In a sweeping study of nearly 28 million older Americans, researchers found that long ...

Breathing indoor air pollution during childhood tends to be linked to worse memory in older adulthood. A new study suggests that improving access to clean energy early in life might help protect the ...

For the first time ever, scientists have observed in near real time a cloud of air pollution created as a SpaceX rocket burned up in Earth's atmosphere.