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The Global Observatory on Pollution and Health at Boston College and an international team of researchers are launching a study of the hazards plastic products pose to global human health across the continuum of their production, use, and disposal, according to observatory director Professor of Biology Philip Landrigan, M.D.

Possible solutions could lie at the intersection of breeding and genetic modification.

When Mark Abbott and his team pulled a 300-foot-long core of mud from a lakebed high in the Peruvian Andes, he hoped it might provide a long-sought-after glimpse of the past 160,000 years of climate change.

In summer 2022, multiple heatwaves around the world felled temperature records and fueled wildfires.

A staggering 57% of threatened species need targeted recovery actions to ensure their survival, new research has shown.