During the early decades of the Industrial Revolution, the main concerns were pollution from the smoke and smog that the coal-fired furnaces created. Since the beginning of the Industrial ...

Before the Industrial Revolution, our planet’s atmosphere was still untainted by human-made pollutants. At least, that’s what scientists thought until recently, when bubbles trapped in ...

This caused diseases such as typhoid and cholera to run rampant. What cities grew during the Industrial Revolution? In the industrial revolution, New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia saw the most ...

Ever since the industrial revolution in England, scientists have worried that we might be ruining our own weekends by creating weekday pollution that leads to more rain on Saturdays and Sundays.

The researchers found that funnel-weaving spiders alter how their silk webs transmit vibrations in response to local noise.

Rivers have been more intensively used for power in the Don catchment than almost anywhere else in the country, particularly during the peak of the Industrial Revolution ... major urbanization and ...