New research reveals the importance of winter sea ice in the year-to-year variability of the amount of atmospheric CO2 absorbed by a region of the Southern Ocean. 

Prescribed burns are important for land management and preventing wildfires, but a new study finds these managed fires are also significant contributors to air pollution in the southeastern United States – particularly in areas with large minority and low-income populations. 

Wildfires pollute waterways and could affect their ability to sequester carbon, recent University of British Columbia research shows.

Researchers say avoiding these toxic blooms may reduce the rate of disease.

Wastewater treatment plants are not effectively removing this tiny pollutant, study shows.

Gator research uncovers increased levels of mercury in the state’s swamps.

A new study has revealed for the first time that ancient carbon, stored in landscapes for thousands of years or more, can find its way back to the atmosphere as CO₂ released from the surfaces of rivers.

Karen Noda Morishita is using analytic chemistry to quantify organic contaminants.

From tiny pellets to creepy wave-battered baby dolls, the Texas coast is a notable hot spot for plastic debris.

MIT engineers developed an atmospheric water harvester that produces fresh water anywhere — even Death Valley, California.