Researchers mapped lead contamination in Chicago’s soil and the results are alarming.

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New York City faces a range of environmental challenges to which a successful mayor will need to pay attention.

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As festive lights brighten India’s skyline, the air turns increasingly toxic. Experts warn that this annual spike in pollution is not just an environmental concern but a serious public health threat, ...

Campaigners have warned of a “silent crisis” of a chemical damaging rivers because of leaky pipes. Phosphates are ...

A Miccosukee tribal elder leads scientists into the Everglades to save both the ecosystem and his tribe’s heritage and ...

Lead poisoning was once thought to largely be a problem of the past, as the globe gradually weaned itself off leaded gasoline ...

Lead poisoning isn’t just an industrial-age problem. A new study reveals our ancestors, including Neanderthals, were exposed ...

In a world where convenience often trumps common sense, the toilet has somehow become the unsuspecting hero—or rather, victim ...

It's no surprise to Northeastern food policy expert Darin Detwiler that high levels of lead are being found in both protein powders and bottles of cinnamon.

Lead exposure sounds like a modern problem, at least if you define “modern” the way a paleoanthropologist might: a time that ...