If you’re curious about the air quality in your city on a given day, you might pull up your phone’s weather app to see the air-quality index based on various pollutants. But that data, which tends to ...

Despite the control measures and regulations in place, industrial water pollution is still a problem in the United States. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has found that thousands of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plastic waste is an undeniable environmental issue, with everything from water bottles to clothing microfibers cited as the worst ...

On some days the Denver metro area's air quality makes Denver hard to find. Now it has become much easier to locate the stationary sources of some of that pollution. It's an interactive map with ...

As rain falls, lurking within stormwater runoff are hidden microplastics, polluting the water sources they drain into. Even ...

Every few years, the tires on your car wear thin and need to be replaced. But where does that lost tire material go? The answer, unfortunately, is often waterways, where the tiny microplastic ...

Nutrient pollution from Kansas rivers and streams is feeding harmful algae in Topeka's recreational lakes, impacting aquatic ...

Road traffic is one of the causes of air pollution in Lagos, Nigeria. Photo by Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images Ten more African cities have signed on to the C40 Clean Air Cities Declaration to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Most tires are made of synthetic rubber that sheds particles of microplastics over time. Rapeepong Puttakumwong/Moment via Getty ...