Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Francesca Dominici is director of the Harvard Data Science Initiative. The World Health Organization 2024 report recently urged ...

Oliver A.H. Jones receives funding from the Australian Research Council, various water utilities, EPA Victoria and the Defence Science Institute for research into environmental pollution, including ...

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has quietly changed how it evaluates pollution rules, and as a result ...

Halle Parker / WWNO After Hurricane Ida struck in 2021, the city of New Orleans went dark. The electric grid failed, spurring calls for more energy independence through measures like rooftop solar. On ...

Burning, watering, and itchy eyes are no longer just seasonal problems. With rising air pollution, daily exposure to dust and ...

Emissions of NOx form smog and soot, which is harmful to human health and linked to serious heart and lung diseases.

The University of California, Berkeley unveiled a new interactive tool on Tuesday that it designed for the United Nations, at no cost, in an effort to combat dangerous pollutants around the world. The ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released its National Strategy to Prevent Plastic Pollution, which outlines opportunities to protect communities from the impacts of plastic production and ...

Duarte Pita Dias is based in CBS News' London bureau, where he works across digital platforms and for TV broadcasts. Senior Coordinating Producer of Climate and Environmental Coverage Tracy J. Wholf ...

In India, much of the population breathes air that is 10 times more polluted than what the World Health Organization considers safe. In a study released April 15 in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, ...