An international team of scientists that includes a USDA Forest Service scientist based in New Hampshire used tree rings to document how “Arctic dimming,” the interference with sunlight caused by extreme pollution such as that at an industrial complex in northern Siberia, is killing trees and possibly affecting how trees respond to climate change.

A new project has been launched to remove hormone-changing pollutants from the environment.

Newfoundland and Labrador’s plastic waste washes up as far afield as Scotland, Spain and Portugal.

An interdisciplinary research team at Queen’s University is taking the first step in establishing a local group in the National Sewage Sentinel Surveillance in Canada.

Ecologists at the University of Toronto are sounding the alarm after measuring the scale of human response needed to reduce future levels of plastic in the world’s aquatic ecosystems and manage what’s already floating around out there.

The fire is among the largest Los Angeles County has ever faced.

Wildfires have been burning across the state of California for weeks – some of them becoming larger complexes as different fires merge.

Harmful algal blooms are a growing problem in water across the nation, but OSU researchers may have one piece of the solution thanks to groundbreaking research and new funding.

High levels of air pollution are forcing people inside to consume more electricity, subsequently causing even greater environmental problems by increasing greenhouse gas emissions.

Barely a week goes by without another headline about the rising tide of plastic in the ocean.