Many electric vehicles are powered by batteries that contain cobalt — a metal that carries high financial, environmental, and social costs.

An international team of scientists led by DRI found evidence of Southern Hemisphere heavy metal pollution preserved in Antarctic ice cores from early Andean cultures and Spanish Colonial mining that predates the Industrial Revolution by centuries.

Environmental epidemiologists at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, in collaboration with an interdisciplinary team of researchers at Oregon State University, Pacific Northwest National Labs, and Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, report on the findings of a new study of air pollution exposures collected using personal wristband monitors worn by pregnant individuals in New York City matched with data from a questionnaire.

Harmful chemicals in plastics contribute to cancer, diabetes, other endocrine diseases.

The roads, bridges and highways that crisscross B.C. take us where we want to go.

The frigid Arctic Ocean is far removed from the places most people live, but even so, “forever chemicals” reach this remote landscape.

Aerosol particles play a key role in cooling the planet.

Feldspar is very common in rocks. As atmospheric dust, this mineral contributes efficiently to cloud formation. 

The recent cold spell has plunged the nation into a deep freeze, resulting in the closure of 247 national parks, the cancellation of 14 domestic flights, and the scrapping of 107 cruise ship voyages. 

The construction industry as a CO2 sink? Researchers at Empa's Concrete & Asphalt lab are working on this.