An estimated 5 billion tons of desert dust disperses into Earth’s atmosphere every year. Some of it makes its way to the roof of the world — the Himalayas.

The unusually red and acidic Rio Tinto harbors microscopic life that could inform the search for life on Mars.

A research group at the Texas A&M School of Public Health has found a way to decrease the number of toxic chemicals in drinking water.

Years of exporting plastic waste abroad masked actual U.S. contribution to plastic pollution crisis.

New simulations have provided clues on reducing peat fires, which hide underground and are notoriously bad for human health and the environment.

Commercially sold water filters do a good job of making sure any lead from residential water pipes does not make its way into water used for drinking or cooking.

Researchers with the University of Saskatchewan’s (USask) Institute of Space and Atmospheric Studies are part of a global team that has found that the smoke cloud pushed into the stratosphere by last winter’s Australian wildfires was three times larger than anything previously recorded.

When satellites take pictures of Earth at night, how much of the light that they see comes from streetlights?

A team of researchers from ETH Zurich has for the first time used simulations on the CSCS supercomputer "Piz Daint" to investigate how certain ageing mechanisms of soot particles in the atmosphere affect cloud formation.

NOAA, EPA and other federal partners announced a new strategy this month to combat the global issue of trash in our ocean.