North Sea oil and gas extraction can cause pollution to spike by more than 10,000% within half a kilometre around off-shore sites.

A recent Supreme Court decision to block a federal rule curbing interstate air pollution further complicates efforts to reduce emissions and adds to an already disproportionate burden on “downwind” states, according to researchers at the University of Notre Dame.

Scientists have discovered that ponderosa pines effectively stop breathing when beset by wildfire smoke.

To track the sources of mercury pollution across wildlands in the U.S., scientists have turned to an unlikely indictor: dragonfly larvae.

The “white gold” of clean energy, lithium is a key ingredient in batteries large and small, from those powering phones and laptops to grid-scale energy storage systems.

A survey of litter on British beaches has found an 80 percent drop in plastic bags over the last decade, which advocates say was brought about by a small charge added to disposable bags.

A room-temperature method to decompose perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) using visible LED light offers a promising solution for sustainable fluorine recycling and PFAS treatment.

Lead levels in moss are as much as 600 times higher in older Portland neighborhoods where lead-sheathed telecommunications cables were once used compared to lead levels in nearby rural areas, a new study of urban moss has found.

The wildfire season of 2023 was the most destructive ever recorded in Canada and a new study suggests the impact was unprecedented.

In a large Singapore cohort study involving over 13,000 participants spanning close to 20 years, higher consumption of fruits during midlife was found to be associated with lower odds of depressive symptoms at late-life.