Tag: Environmental Health

Credit: City University of Hong Kong & PNAS In a single sneeze or a cough, as many as 40,000 tiny ...

Exposure to air pollution, particularly at school, could be associated with a higher risk of overweight and obesity during childhood. ...

Rewilding may have the potential to drastically improve biodiversity but remains a highly controversial and divisive topic. A new book ...

Scientists are a step closer to understanding what controls fine particulate matter in the Earth's atmosphere after identifying new linkages ...

Insect pollinators are vital to the existence of almost 90 percent of the world's flowering plants, including a large portion ...

In a study published in Environment International researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden show how PFAS industrial chemicals, which are ...

Also leave behind toxic residueCredit: Photo courtesy of Matt Bertone. Total release foggers, commonly known as "bug bombs," are ineffective ...

Credit: Photo by Fred Zwicky CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Microplastics contaminate the world's surface waters, yet scientists have only just begun ...

The social disruption that results from natural disasters often interrupts children's schooling. However, we know little about how children's learning ...

Lead exposure in childhood appears to have long-lasting negative effects on mental health and personality in adulthoodCredit: Adapted from JAMA ...

Mockingbirds exposed to sub-lethal levels of lead in urban areas display significantly heightened aggression, said Morris Animal Foundation-funded researchers at ...

Credit: Elleni Vendras Researchers of the Department of Conservation Biology at the University of Göttingen have carried out research in ...

Credit: Fotolia / Graphene Flagship As the drive to commercialise graphene continues, it is important that all safety aspects are ...

More living organisms on our bodies and in our homes could help in combating diseases -- if we let them ...

Exposure to certain chemicals such as phthalates, parabens or Bisphenol A could be associated with a decrease in blood pressure ...

Joint British Ecological Society and Society for Tropical Ecology symposium The event celebrates the fourth European Conference of Tropical Ecology, ...

Rate depends on age, pollutant and lung diseaseCredit: ATS Jan. 17, 2019--As levels of ozone and fine particulate pollution (PM2.5) ...

Analysis shows Hispanic communities are disproportionately exposed Newton, Mass. (January 17, 2019) - More than 5.6 million Americans are potentially ...

9/11 first responders' health still threatened from exposure at deadly attack, Rutgers study finds A Rutgers study has found a ...

Drexel and Arizona State researchers look at risk of infection from water in the air at home "Don't drink the ...