A collaborative research team involving Texas A&M University geologist Dr. Franco Marcantonio has examined the source of lead contamination in a Tibetan glacier, concluding that human activities have introduced the pollutant metal in some of the most remote regions of the world.

Plastic pollution – tiny bits of plastic, smaller than a grain of sand – is everywhere, a fact of life that applies even to newborn rodents, according to a Rutgers Health study published in the journal Science of the Total Environment.

Researchers have long observed that a common family of environmental bacteria, Comamonadacae, grow on plastics littered throughout urban rivers and wastewater systems.

Step aside hard, rigid materials.

On a cool morning, you hike a desert trail, noticing the life around you. Saguaros and creosote. Hawks and lizards. Rabbits and centipedes.

Plants can absorb micro- and nanoplastics in their stems and roots, raising concerns about how natural ecosystems cope when plastic particles invade.

University of Houston researchers and their students are developing a new software technology, based on artificial intelligence, for advancing cell-based immunotherapy to treat cancer and other diseases.

A multi-disciplinary University of Queensland project aims to quantify how many Australians will be forced to relocate because of climate change disaster scenarios in the next 25 years.

Visitors to NOAA’s Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Division in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, may notice a toy bear perched high on a shelf in the hallway.

“Traditionally and for good reason, public health experts have focused on clinical settings like hospitals and nursing homes, because that is where patients acquire resistant bacteria,” said Xu Li, the study’s principal investigator.