Pollution

“This Plastic Melts in the Ocean”: Japanese Scientists Reveal a Radical Material That Could Finally End the Global Pollution Crisis

“Crystal Turns Violet on Contact”: Scientists Reveal Pyrazinacene’s Shocking Ability to Detect Pollution Instantly and Visibly

“US Scientists Sound the Alarm”: These Microscopic Nanoplastics Are Now Proven to Absorb Toxic Heavy Metal Ions at Alarming Rates

Wildfire Smoke Disaster: This Groundbreaking Study Links U.S. Blazes to 15,000 Deaths and an Economic Hit of $160 Billion

Silent Killer in Your Home: This Common Plastic Chemical Linked to Staggering 356,000 Heart Disease Deaths in 2018, Study Reveals

“California’s Electric Train Revolution Slashes Toxic Pollution”: 89% Drop in Carcinogens Marks Historic Win for Public Health and Climate

“America Is Stunned”: China’s Revolutionary Moss Sponge Cleans Up Oil Spills With 90% Reuse, Redefining Global Environmental Power

“Silent killers in the deep”: these massive shipwrecks threaten our oceans with an unprecedented ecological disaster

Most sources of protein in the US contain vast quantities of microplastics

Artificial light lures migrating birds into cities where they face a gauntlet of threats

A robot inspired by a snail could help clean up microplastics

Harms of noise pollution track with U.S. racial inequities

Treaty negotiations to reduce plastic waste are stuck in low gear

Pollution from coal-fired power plants causes far more deaths than previously thought

Nanoplastics in the brain may promote Parkinson’s disease

The sex ratio of endangered sea turtles is badly skewed by pollution

Air pollution makes New Delhi barely liveable for millions

Even tiny ants can get entangled in plastic waste

Bacteria can help us eliminate plastic waste from the seas

Study finds cleaner snow may mean fewer resource impacts