At cruising altitude, airplanes emit a steady stream of nitrogen oxides into the atmosphere, where the chemicals can linger to...
Climate change is causing mountain snow to melt more rapidly and glaciers to shrink, but this is making a widely...
About three million metric tons of agricultural pesticides are used across the globe each year, yet little is known about...
Air pollution increases in South East Asia, combined with pollution cuts in Europe, may have had an important influence on...
As nations meet in Uruguay to negotiate a new Global Plastics Treaty, marine and forensic scientists publish new results this...
A Colorado State University-led study published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology reveals that in U.S. cities over a...
Reducing fossil fuel use is essential to stopping climate change, but that goal will remain out of reach unless global...
Image: Seabin In 2013, Pete Ceglinski and Andrew Turton set out with a goal to remove waste from the ocean....
When drought-stricken rivers and reservoirs run low across the American West, hydropower dries up and utilities fire up hundreds of...
The world has enough rare earth minerals and other critical raw materials to switch from fossil fuels to renewable energy...
Polymer science has made possible rubber tires, Teflon and Kevlar, plastic water bottles, nylon jackets among many other ubiquitous features...
Even without any future global warming, Greenland’s melting ice sheet will cause major sea level rise with potentially “ominous” implications...