A herd of buffaloes wander parched land amidst a drought, a farmer and his cows wade knee-deep through floodwater, and people walk across a bridge over a multicolored river of trash. All three scenes ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Initiative has ...

NASA has released the first data maps from a new instrument monitoring air pollution from space. The visualizations show high levels of major pollutants like nitrogen dioxide — a reactive chemical ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Los Angeles has struggled with air pollution problems since before smog became a term. In 1943, smog covered the city so thickly ...

Cities across the East Coast were blanketed with hazy and smoky conditions this week from fires burning across Canadian territory. The Air Quality Index (AQI) in New York City, Philadelphia and ...

Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota, Pine Bend sanitary landfill, the largest open landfill in Minnesota. (Photo by: Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) June 5th marks World ...

A motorcyclist in Los Angeles prepares to turn while driving along a street engulfed in a thick haze combined by fog and smog in 1958.Bettmann / Getty For much of its history, the city of stars could ...