In a soft, faltering voice, her large brown eyes staring absently ahead, Winfrida Besa repeats "A-B-C-D" over and over as she tries to sing the ABCs. With her thin ...

It was already clear that pollution has had a devastating effect on air quality in dense cities like Beijing, where heavy smog days keep schoolchildren indoors. But a new report released by the World ...

A plume of upper-atmospheric lithium pollution observed in February 2025 has been attributed to the reentry of a specific ...

The U.S. is marking Earth Day this week with EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin as the public face of a Trump administration plan to make our environment dirtier via deregulation, for example by allowing ...

This city of almost 300,000 people, 80 miles north of Zambia's capital of Lusaka, was identified by a 2022 U.N. report as a "sacrifice zone" — one of the most polluted places on the planet. Between ...