Some Hawaii island residents were showing early signs of respiratory illness over the weekend as the lava from Kilauea Volcano expanded its footprint in the Leilani Estates subdivision. State Sen.

ISIS set fire to a sulfur plant in Iraq and it's visible from space. A member of the Iraqi special forces guards a checkpoint near the village of Awsaja, Iraq, as smoke from fires lit by Islamic State ...

China's sweeping efforts to clean up its air have delivered one of the biggest public health success stories of recent ...

Emissions of the air pollutant sulfur dioxide have been dramatically decreased during the past 30 years but for some people even a little inhaled sulfur dioxide may still be too much. "Asthmatics are ...

WASHINGTON The Environmental Protection Agency issued a new health standard on Thursday for sulfur dioxide emissions, the first such revision in nearly 40 years. The agency said the new standard, ...

Among the many threats Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano poses — dangerous sulfur dioxide concentration, lava flowing through neighborhoods, boulders-turned-ballistic missiles — is acid rain, says the U.S.

Volcanoes erupt, they spew ash, their scarred flanks sometimes run with both lava and landslides. But only occasionally. A less dramatic but important process is continuous gas emissions from ...

Flying under the flag of Hong Kong, the bulk carrier Darya Ganga continues its journey on the Sacramento River section of the San Joaquin-Sacramento River Delta in Northern California after passing ...

Hubble Space Telescope observations of the dwarf planet Ceres have discovered the first evidence of sulfur, sulfur dioxide and graphitized carbon found on an asteroid. The sulfur species are likely ...

The explosion probably won’t cool the planet as some previous eruptions have done, but it could affect weather in the short term. By Henry Fountain While residents of Tonga struggle to recover from a ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Reduced sulfur dioxide emissions from Painesville’s municipal power plant and the 2015 closure of FirstEnergy’s Eastlake power plant has brought Lake County into compliance with ...