While braking in your car may protect you from accidents and save your life, it could actually be harmful to your health in other ways, new research has found. Particles released into the air as ...

Air quality is an important but often ignored part of staying healthy. Every breath we take can carry tiny particles and chemicals that enter our lungs without causing pain or obvious problems. Since ...

Smoke permeates everything and impacts everyone. The visible stew of carbon and particulates typically from emission sources travels in the air, shrouds buildings, suffocates birds, and penetrates ...

Your kitchen toaster, the same one that quietly sits on the counter between weekend brunches, may be flooding your home with ...

What Are Atmospheric Aerosols Exactly Aerosols refer to fine solid or liquid particles suspended in the atmosphere, where ...

Professor and Chair, Department of Public Health Science and Community Medicine, University of Connecticut The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced a new standard for protecting the ...

It's tough not to run across an article linking – by association – air pollution with adverse health effects. Over time scientists have focused more of their research on one component of our air: ...

Scientists are increasingly alarmed by the airborne particles routinely released by power plants, petrochemical companies, motor vehicles, concrete plants and other sources. Their concerns are so ...

Plastics are not inert: they gradually break into fragments over time, forming micro- and then nanoplastics (i.e., particles ...