UC Santa Barbara researchers and their colleagues estimate that without intervention, plastic pollution is on track to double by 2050. But in a study published in the journal Science, these same ...

In 2012, Deborah Cory-Slechta at the University of Rochester, New York, received a “bucket of brains”. A colleague had been studying how air pollution around the university harms the hearts and lungs ...

Steve Milloy: Studies about people dying from air pollution are all funded by regulation-happy EPA, based on secret data, rubberstamped by EPA grantees ...

Sometimes, the most surprising discoveries come from unexpected places. A similar experience happened when a California teenager decided to test whether a simple houseplant could do more than beautify ...

A study has found that implementing robust air pollution control measures could mean Southeast Asian countries prevent as many as 36,000 ozone-related premature deaths each year by 2050. A study by ...

As Delhi faces one of its most severe air quality crises in recent years, the government has sought scientific intervention. The Delhi government, in partnership with IIT Kanpur, has initiated cloud ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Chemical pollution is “a threat to the thriving of humans and nature of a similar ...

Atmospheric researchers have bid farewell to what may be the longest running space science experiment in Canadian history. MOPITT – which stands for Measurement of Pollution in the Troposphere – is a ...

New citizen science water quality testing of Windermere has revealed “really concerning” pollution in England’s largest and most famous lake. Following the results, which showed levels of harmful ...

In a pièce de résistance for swimmable cities, Paris’s Seine river is opening to swimmers for the first time in 100 years. Starting in late June, three free public access points will offer “Parisians ...

A California teenager's science experiment revealed that English ivy significantly reduces airborne mold and fecal matter particles. Over twelve hours, the plant eliminated approximately 78.5% of mold ...