Associate Science Editor & Co-Host of The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation Marc Johnson receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada, the National Science ...

Human activities generate environmental stresses that can lead plant populations to become extinct. Population survival would require the evolution of adaptive responses that increase tolerance to ...

Pollution is a public health concern, and is considered to be any harmful material introduced to the environment. Many materials can cause such harm and are referred to as pollutants. Pollutants are ...

Pollution cuts more lives short worldwide than war, terrorism, malaria, HIV, tuberculosis, drugs or alcohol. That's the takeaway of a report published Tuesday in The Lancet Planetary Health, which ...

Air pollution is expensive. It causes disease, which results in health care costs. It causes people to miss work because they are sick, disabled, or need to care for an afflicted family member. And it ...

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 new ...