An international study found that air pollution leads to more cancer-related genetic changes than secondhand smoke.

Research from the NIH’s National Cancer Institute, an agency beleaguered by funding cuts and censorship, finds that ...

Scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and their colleagues at the University of California, San Diego, have found that ...

Model solves key challenge in combining mismatched geographic health data. Story by Science X staff ... air pollution in the United Kingdom, and lung cancer risk in Alabama, U.S..

Air in the U.S. has gotten cleaner for decades, adding years to people's lives and preventing millions of asthma attacks, but nearly half of Americans still live with unhealthy air pollution, a ...

The programs, which operated at all 63 national parks, monitored air quality and collected data regarding the pollution levels to limit health risks in the parks and protect the wildlife.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) AirNow map, which offers a real-time snapshot of air quality, shows that air pollution levels across swathes of Minnesota, and parts of Iowa and ...

A study by UC San Diego researchers reveals that pollutants found in the sewage-laden Tijuana River are ending up in the air near the U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego County.