This April marks 10 years since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Learn more about our efforts to restore the Gulf's ecosystem since then.

Jackie Quinn had an idea. What if the system NASA developed for removing contaminants from building paint could also be used to clean up the environment?

Though coral reefs are in sharp decline across the world, scientists say some reefs can still thrive with plentiful fish stocks, high fish biodiversity, and well-preserved ecosystem functions.

To address the plastic environmental crisis, Cornell chemists have developed a new polymer with ample strength in a marine setting that is poised to degrade by ultraviolet radiation, according to research published March 30 in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

New research published in the British Ecological Society’s Journal of Ecology finds that ash dieback is far less severe in the isolated conditions ash is often found in, such as forests with low ash density or in open canopies like hedges, suggesting the long term impact of the disease on Europe's ash trees will be more limited than previously thought.

One of the more intense tornados to raze the ground in April 2020 left a scar visible from space.

Underestimation of coarse dust skews models that predict global climate, UCLA researchers say.

On April 20, 2010, the offshore oil drilling ship Deepwater Horizon exploded, killing 11 crewmen and resulting in over $60 billion in clean-up costs, penalties, fines and restitution to affected businesses.

Unless it happens to be allergy season, most people don’t give a lot of thought to pollen. 

Leafhoppers are tiny insects. They are only about 3 millimeters long, smaller than a grain of rice.