Oil fires can also release sulphur and nitrogen oxides, which can form acids if they dissolve in rainwater, as well as other ...

Smoke plumes caused by oil depot and refinery strikes drifted across Tehran on Monday, satellite images show, as the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that attacks on oil facilities could pose ...

The waves of U.S. and Israeli bomb strikes in Tehran and Beirut, and Iran’s missile and drone attacks on neighboring countries in response, are damaging more than buildings – they are sending toxic ...

Missiles and bombs contain heavy metals and other toxic pollutants, which can linger for decades in air, soil and water. Cleanup is difficult and expensive.

Soot-covered buildings, cars and roads, towering plumes of thick, dark and oily debris, toxic air searing the lungs, cracked and sore lips, along with burning eyes, this was the landscape that ...

Environmental damage caused during a war carries immense health risks for the people, but the air in India is no less; it’s a ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) As a chemical and environmental engineer who studies the behavior and effects of ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Armin Sorooshian, University of Arizona (THE CONVERSATION) The waves of U.S. and ...