Eastern US states including New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut issue alerts as hundreds of wildfires burn in Canada Tens of millions of people in the US were under air quality alerts on Wednesday, as smoke from Canadian wildfires drifted south, … Read More
Pollution off the Pacific shoreline of the remote Kamchatka peninsula has caused the mass death of marine creatures, Russian scientists said Tuesday. Locals sounded the alarm in late September as surfers experienced stinging eyes from the water and sea creatures … Read More
The Saddleworth Moor fire in June 2018 was the largest UK wildfire in recent decades – PA Huge wildfires in 2018 exposed five million people to dangerous levels of polluted air, a new study has found. The devastating blazes at … Read More
A man jogs along a street under smoggy conditions in New Delhi on November 1, 2019. New Delhi (CNN) Five million New Delhi children will be given face masks by the government as the city battles heavy smog so toxic that it threatens to … Read More
Lauren Woeher wonders if her 16-month-old daughter has been harmed by tap water contaminated with toxic industrial compounds used in products like nonstick cookware, carpets and fast-food wrappers. Henry Betz, at 76, rattles around his house alone at night, thinking … Read More