Science

Air pollution is the second leading cause of human death worldwide.

Scientists have uncovered evidence that hot days actually speed up the biological aging process.

Dengue fever poses major public health challenges, with climate change complicating control efforts.

The warmer a city gets and the more people who move into it, the worse the rat infestations will likely…

Microplastics are small enough to flow easily through capillaries.

Older people are especially vulnerable to the dangers of heat—but a new study surprisingly finds that young people are falling…

A new work pulls together 485 climate change studies into a global estimate of how the threat increases as average…

What do squid bones and cotton fibers have to do with one another? Perhaps the future of microplastics cleanup.

A sophisticated model has weighed the effects of the most common proposals, finding that a combination of four strategies could…

Public health agencies warn that if it’s too hot, the blowing air can actually make things worse by acting like…