Scent is essential to ant society: every ant within a colony wears the badge of membership in the form of smelly hydrocarbons ...

Air pollution has been convincingly linked to respiratory illnesses, while run-off from industries has not only diminished ...

Air pollution silently reduces global cognitive potential, driving inequality and threatening brain health across all generations.

Air pollution caused by wildfires can raise the risks of cardiovascular events and death, but the impact is inconsistent, according to new data from two major California wildfires. Increased risks of ...

Even at levels safe for humans, air pollution can disrupt the way some insects communicate with plants, and with each other.

A combination of hot temperature and high air pollution is associated with increased risk of suicide in the following days, ...

The World Meteorological Organization’s fifth annual Air Quality and Climate Bulletin, issued in September, called attention to the effects of air pollution on climate change and human and ecosystem ...

Researchers argue that exposure to fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) may affect cognitive function and intelligence, potentially causing large population-level losses in global IQ. Using ...

Future Cardiol. 2012;8(4):577-602. A recently published meta-analysis of the studies addressing the question of oxidative stress and PM scrutinized the evidence from the controlled exposures, panel ...

Eating fruit may reduce the effects of air pollution on lung function, according to research presented at the European Respiratory Society Congress in Amsterdam, the Netherlands [1]. The study was ...