Black mambas (Dendroaspis polylepis) are Africa's longest, most famous venomous snakes. Despite their fearsome reputation, ...

One figure stressed that health risks are particularly acute in the Amazon, where access to medical services is scarce ...

Ocean oxygen loss, not just mercury pollution, can trigger toxic methylmercury blooms that threaten marine life and seafood ...

Black mambas (Dendroaspis polylepis) are Africa’s longest, most famous venomous snakes. Despite their fearsome reputation, ...

A Catholic bishop in Peru’s Amazon is warning that mercury from illegal gold mining is contaminating rivers, fish and people across the region.

Q. I have heard that light pollution causes migrating birds to become disoriented. Will the fairy lights (small solar lamps) ...

The U.S. air pollution monitoring network has fallen into disrepair after years of budget cuts and neglect, leaving tens of millions of Americans vulnerable to undetected bad air quality from events ...

Sleep apnea patients have more episodes of reduced or stopped breathing during their slumber in areas with heavier air ...

As Utah families welcomed children in the 1970s and ’80s, many lived near refineries and manufacturers that were releasing ...

A flash of pink breaks the muddy surface of the Amazon River as scientists and veterinarians, waist-deep in the warm current, patiently work a mesh net around a pod of river dolphins. They draw it ...

The Muscatine session will be one of four listening sessions held in Iowa, all in cities near active coal utility sites.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will finalize on Wednesday its overhaul of how it measures the costs and benefits of proposed new curbs on pollution, a move that is likely to sap the agency’s ...