Leakage in Ken Regan field could have contaminated groundwater for livestock and irrigation between 2007 and 2011.

An international team of scientists, led by the University of Manchester, has developed a metal-organic framework, or MOF, material that provides a selective, fully reversible and repeatable capability to capture a toxic air pollutant, nitrogen dioxide, produced by combusting diesel and other fossil fuels.

Under a warming climate, wildfires in Oregon's southern Blue Mountains will become more frequent, more extensive and more severe, according to a new Portland State University-led study.

According to researchers, the smoke plumes from the Australian fires have risen as high as 12 to 13 kilometers (7 to 8 miles) in the atmosphere.

Against the odds, the landmass that exploded and oozed into existence in early 2015 is now nearly five years old.

Two common species of small mammals are not significantly disturbed by industrial activity near their homes, according to a new study by University of Alberta scientists.

Scientists now know that for Earth to stay within the temperature increase limit set by the Paris Agreement, negative emission technologies (NET), which remove and permanently sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, are essential.

Scientists from Trinity have created a suite of new biological sensors by chemically re-engineering pigments to act like tiny Venus flytraps.

Insects have experienced global declines. Flipping the switch can help.

Simply planting a hedge in front of a park can halve the amount of traffic pollution that reaches children as they play, finds a new study by the University of Surrey.