Throughout the middle of the 20th century, phosphorus inputs from detergents and fertilizers degraded the water quality of Switzerland’s Lake Geneva, spurring officials to take action to remediate pollution in the 1970s.

Aiming to produce environmentally friendly alternatives to plastic food wrap and containers, a Rutgers scientist has developed a biodegradable, plant-based coating that can be sprayed on foods, guarding against pathogenic and spoilage microorganisms and transportation damage.

Increasing frequency and size of wildfires in the United States over the past several decades affect everything from human life and health to air quality, biodiversity, and land use. 

A new Imperial analysis has found that biogas and biomethane, while more climate friendly, leak up to twice as much methane as previously thought.

Oil slicks are microscopically thin layers of oil on the surface of the ocean.

Dozens of wildfires, including the largest tundra fire on record for the Yukon, are burning across the state.

Children are more likely than adults to suffer health impacts due to environmental impacts.

Among the 10 bodies of water in the research, toxigenic Dolichospermum cyanobacteria caused blooms in four of them

Most North Atlantic right whales that are severely injured in fishing gear entanglements die within three years, a study by the New England Aquarium and Duke University finds.

A new approach of studying the behaviour of surface films covering particles taken directly from the atmosphere has been developed by scientists.