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The team uses seawater and delicate mesh filters to painstakingly separate the buoyant plastic by hand. The goal is to ...

A form of harmful air pollution that often can't be plainly observed is now being tracked with a groundbreaking new tool ...

More than one-third of Americans live in places with unhealthy levels of air pollution, according to an annual report published by the American Lung Association. The 24th iteration of the State of the ...

Dust is many things. At its most elemental, dust is a blend of dead skin, hair, fibers from clothing and other textiles, soil, pollen, dander, insect corpses, dust mites. Dust can be a health hazard, ...

The tiny particles inhaled from air pollution stick to our red blood cells, hitching a ride to do damage throughout our ...