Plastic pollution reduces fishing revenues and threatens the livelihoods of thousands of vulnerable coastal families.

Scientists analyzed unhatched bird eggs and found traces of both banned and modern pesticides, revealing pollution moving ...

Upper clouds hold in heat that might otherwise escape into space.

Humanity’s artificial glow is swallowing the night sky. Even astronomers in this remote observatory in the South American ...

As final negotiations for an international plastics treaty get underway this week in Busan, South Korea, scientists warn that the global plastics crisis is far more dangerous than previously thought.

The rapid unscheduled disassembly (aka explosion) of SpaceX's Starship megarocket that rained scorching fragments of metal across the Caribbean in mid-January may have released significant amounts of ...

Every day, without any visible sign, Earth gains weight. Tens of tons of extraterrestrial microparticles, shed by comets and ...

Given the ceaseless procession of disasters this summer—from heat domes to hurricanes to the fiery destruction of Lahaina—the slow-motion disaster of plastic pollution may not be top of mind. But the ...

We are living in unprecedented times that call for sustainable solutions to the many era-defining challenges unfolding in the world today. With many still overcoming the life-shuddering impacts of a ...

For a day or two during wildfire season, cities like New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Sacramento and Seattle earn the dubious title of worst air quality in the world, according to real-time data from ...

Air pollution from satellites burning up in Earth's atmosphere could become the world's next big environmental problem — but the tricky form of contamination seems to evade the reach of both ...