The new research adds context to a long-standing debate about the role lead pollution and poisoning may have played in the ...

Using modern evidence of lead pollution and its health effects, the international team calculates that lead exposure in the ...

Lead records from Arctic glaciers indicate that people all over Europe would have been affected by pollution from metal ...

Lead exposure is responsible for a range of human health impacts, with even relatively low levels impacting the cognitive ...

The researchers first took measurements of lead deposited in three Arctic ice cores every year between 500 BCE and 600 CE using techniques they have reported before. They found that lead emissions ...

Exposure to lead from mining probably lowered I.Q. levels in the empire, research has found. It might be the world’s first ...

Lead pollution might sound like a modern problem, but people were subjected to significant levels during antiquity, too.

Lead exposure is responsible for a range of human health impacts, with even relatively low levels impacting the cognitive ...

Learn how researchers examined lead levels in ice cores dating back to the Roman Empire, and found concentrations high enough ...

Vermont became the first state in the country to enact the law after it suffered catastrophic summer flooding and damage from ...

Atmospheric lead pollution likely caused cognitive decline among citizens of the Roman Empire, according to research ...

The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) and Maricopa County Air Quality both monitor the air putting out daily air forecasts using data from air monitors across the county and state.