A new study highlights how a combination of environmental stressors -- namely plastic pollution and seawater flooding -- can increase the threats faced by plants in some of the planet's critical ...

A pilot study found that wearable devices and GPS tracking can reveal real-time health effects from heat and air pollution, ...

Tracy J. Wholf is a senior coordinating producer of climate and environmental coverage for CBS News and Stations, based in New York. When the Environmental Protection Agency was formed in 1970, its ...

A new NASA-led study helps answer decades-old questions about the role of smoke and human-caused air pollution on clouds and rainfall. Looking specifically at deep convective clouds — tall clouds like ...

A man in glasses looks into a fish tank in which fish of many colors are swimming. Ecotoxicologist Bob Wong studies how fish change when exposed to the antidepressant medication fluoxetine. Credit: ...

The U.S. EPA is delaying standards for steel mill and coke oven emissions for about two more years. The agency previously sought strict standards for what steel mills emit, but new leadership is ...

A recent BMC Public Health journal study investigates the effects of air pollution and lifestyle factors on mortality. Study: Health impacts of lifestyle and ambient air pollution patterns on ...

Air Pollution Effect on Heart: A new study has revealed that being exposed to pollution for a long time can weaken the heart and increase the risk of heart failure. Air Pollution Effect on Heart: ...

In less than a decade, the number of satellites has more than doubled. There are over 18,000 satellites in orbit at the ...

As the war in Iran enters its fourth week, the costs are adding up. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Doug Weir, with the Conflict and War Observatory, about impacts to human health and the environment.