The legacy of abandoned oil wells in the US isn’t hard to see, even leaving gaping holes in the landscape...
Washington State University researchers have shown the fundamental mechanisms that allow tiny pieces of plastic bags and foam packaging at...
Ship movements on the world’s oceans dropped in the first half of 2020 as COVID-19 restrictions came into force, a...
With climate change looming, what must people hear to convince them to change their ways to stop harming the environment?...
Global warming thresholds that could tip massive ice sheets into irreversible melting or see the Amazon rainforest shrivel into savannah...
Photocatalysts are useful materials, with a myriad of environmental and energy applications, including air purification, water treatment, self-cleaning surfaces, pollution-fighting...
When marine biologist Eleanor Caves of the University of Exeter thinks back to her first scuba dives, one of the...
Traces of radioactive fallout from nuclear tests in the 1950s and 1960s can still be found in American honey, new...
Like superheroes capable of seeing through obstacles, environmental regulators may soon wield the power of all-seeing eyes that can identify...
Early into the pandemic it became clear that something was wrong: the first signs of a tangential and potentially deadly...
Our plastic pollution problem has become so bad that microplastics are now embedded in the regular cycles of the atmosphere,...
Researchers at UniSA have developed a cost-effective technique that could deliver safe drinking water to millions of vulnerable people using...
