Industrial pollution has been having a negative impact on human health since the height of the Roman Empire, reveals new research. Lead pollution likely caused widespread IQ declines throughout Europe ...

Microplastics have already found their way into every environment on our planet, but contamination from this pollution is expected to get increasingly worse. Microplastic pollution could more than ...

Lead pollution remained high until the Antonine Plague from 165AD to the 180s, which severely affected the Roman Empire. It wasn’t until the High Middle Ages in the early 2nd millennium AD that lead ...