Skies choked with smoke from wildfires are linked to an increase in violent assaults, a new study has found. Assaults ...

A new report by the local nonprofit details 1,735 emissions events in Harris County between 2017 and 2024 that were caused by explosions, severe weather and facility maintenance.

Cities are rapidly becoming the defining residential space of human life. Over 55% of the global population lived in urban areas in 2018, a proportion projected to reach nearly 68% by 2050, according ...

The global pandemics of plague and smallpox in the Middle Ages claimed hundreds of millions of lives. In this era, long before the concepts of pathogens and infectious diseases were established, ...