On Feb. 18 a new era began in an international effort to improve air quality science and forecasting around the world to help reduce the impact of air pollution on human health and the environment.

NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) measures the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere over urban areas to help researchers better characterize the sources and sinks of the greenhouse gas.

Newcastle University research has uncovered the presence of plastic in a new species of deep-sea amphipods which has been discovered in one of the deepest places on earth.

Scientists are concerned that the growth of commercial-scale agriculture on farms in tropical regions is increasing the global nitrogen footprint.

Microplastics are a growing environmental concern, and the effects of this waste product on coral are highlighted in research published in Chemosphere from an international team of researchers including UConn marine science professor Senjie Lin.

Earth’s atmosphere and climate change are strongly affected by gas exchange between land and atmosphere.

Engineering students at Memorial are designing and building Newfoundland and Labrador’s first Earth observation satellite.

Air pollution is responsible for shortening people’s lives worldwide on a scale far greater than wars and other forms of violence, parasitic and vector-born diseases such as malaria, HIV/AIDS and smoking, according to a study published in Cardiovascular Research today.

NO2 amounts have dropped with the coronavirus quarantine, Chinese New Year, and a related economic slowdown.

In 2011, when the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) accident occurred, radioactive materials leaked out into the surrounding land and water bodies, and these became highly contaminated.