Analysis of existing state and federal guidelines shows discrepancies in recommended safe levels of toxic contaminants PFOA and PFOS in drinking water.

Urban planners should plant hedges, or a combination of trees with hedges – rather than just relying on roadside trees – if they are to most effectively reduce pollution exposure from cars in near-road environments, finds a new study from the University of Surrey.

A new study examining 100 years of bumble bee records reveals that almost half of Vermont’s species, which are vital pollinators, have either vanished or are in serious decline.

High River Mayor Craig Snodgrass and his wife, Lindsay, have lived in their High River home for 10 years. They never expected that the air they were breathing contained unacceptable levels of radon gas.

Prolonged exposure to pollutant particles was shown to reduce the output of workers in China.

Tel Aviv University report is first to assess presence of plastic additives in Eastern Mediterranean and Red Sea marine life.

Ten times more trash washes up on the coast of Texas than any of the other Gulf states.

The startling extent to which violent wild fires, similar to those that ravaged large swathes of California recently, affect forests and crops way beyond the boundaries of the blaze has been revealed.

When hydropower runs low in a drought, western states tend to ramp up power generation – and emissions – from fossil fuels. 

Earlier this year, the United Nations announced some much-needed, positive news about the environment: The ozone layer, which shields the Earth from the sun’s harmful ultraviolet radiation, and which was severely depleted by decades of human-derived, ozone-destroying chemicals, is on the road to recovery.