New research has uncovered the earliest traces of lead contamination caused by human activities, linking the development of ...

Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution.

President Trump ordered EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin to decide by next week whether the agency could abandon its authority to ...

Sediment cores from the Aegean Sea reveal that human-driven lead contamination began 5,200 years ago—much earlier than expected. This pollution is tied to shifts in economy and land use, culminating ...

Lead pollution started peaking when the Romans took over the Aegean coastline.

The oldest signs of lead pollution are found in the Aegean Sea region of Greece, dating back to ancient times, a new study ...

Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution. Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland Greece and the ...

For all its promised benefits, the artificial-intelligence boom is likely to prove costly to public health and even lead to ...

Heavy metal contamination in Yangshan Port raises concerns for seafood safety, with arsenic and mercury posing health risks.

The discovery suggests that human activities were causing lead pollution 1,200 years earlier than previously thought. The lead emissions followed the development of smelting technologies ...

Short-term exposure to air pollution can impair cognitive functions like attention and emotion recognition. These issues ...