Engineers at the University of Missouri have designed a low-cost water filter that can remove arsenic from household drinking water and provide peace of mind for millions of people who are at risk of drinking arsenic-contaminated water around the world.

UChicago, Argonne to develop test systems to save energy, benefit underserved communities.

For the first time, researchers have estimated the impact of lockdown-related air pollution reduction on mortality in 47 provincial capital cities

Virginia Tech geoscientists have found that shallow wastewater injection can drive widespread deep earthquake activity in unconventional oil and gas production fields.

People spend about 80-90% of their time indoors, and graduate students of academic institutes could spend up to 15 hours per day in their offices. 

Dust in the air in Arizona and other southwestern states is not just a concern for air quality – it can also carry the fungus which causes Valley fever, an infectious and potentially severe disease.

A new study from McGill University suggests that some Icelandic killer whales have very high concentrations of PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) in their blubber.

Lightning bolts break apart nitrogen and oxygen molecules in the atmosphere and create reactive chemicals that affect greenhouse gases.

The air in the United States and Western Europe is much cleaner than even a decade ago. 

A study by the UPV/EHU’s CBET research group and the University of Bordeaux has shown that graphene oxide nanomaterials, alone and combined with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, pose a potential source of toxicity to fish, but at concentrations that are above the currently expected environmental levels.