International research team studying the Asian Tropopause Aerosol Layer (ATAL), an area of enhanced aerosol particles that appears in the summertime.

UCSB engineering professor Michelle O'Malley receives DOE award to image microbial processes that could lead to advanced biofuels.

A new study from the University of South Florida St. Petersburg and Eckerd College raises new questions about the impact of pollution on marine life in this vital ecosystem.

New research at the University of Saskatchewan (USask) shows how the world’s most widely used insecticides could be partly responsible for a dramatic decline in songbird populations.

Transportation is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in British Columbia. 

Scientists built a monitoring station in remote northern Alaska and found elevated levels of chlorine atoms when fossil fuel polluted air traveled in from the direction of a nearby city and a large oil field.

Commonly used plastics can affect earthworms, plant growth and pH of soil.

Stems, leaves, flowers and fruits make up the biggest chunk of potential living space for microbes in the environment, but ecologists still don’t know a lot about how the microorganisms that reside there establish and maintain themselves over the course of a growing season.

NSF-funded community soil testing study focused on Troy, New York and Tierra Amarilla, Chile.

Golf ball-size clods of weathered crude oil originating from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon catastrophe could remain buried in sandy Gulf Coast beaches for decades, according to a new study by ecologists at Florida State University.