Local pollution cuts haven’t lowered ozone because transported pollution and global emissions now dominate exposure.

Plastic pollution may be quietly fueling algal blooms by knocking out the grazers that usually keep algae under control.

Air pollution has a "dramatic" impact on the amount of sunlight reaching Earth’s surface, reveals new research. Solar radiative energy declined in large parts of the world from the 1950s to the 1980s ...

What long-term threats does plastic pollution have on the Earth, and specifically marine life? This is what a recent study published in Nature Sustainability hopes to address as a team of scientists ...

Ten years ago, there were about 1,200 satellites in orbit around the earth. Now there are about 12,000 and the numbers are growing rapidly. Starlink alone has 9,000 satellites in its communications ...

While visions of improved recreational options for the Blue Earth River may be a silver lining to the Rapidan Dam failure, the significant increase in pollution downstream is troubling at best and ...

There are better ways to celebrate Earth Day than sitting at your computer. But if you can’t make it out to, say, the Twin Islands Loop near Orchard Beach, you can at least learn more about how what ...

The cosmos has a way of making us feel small, but a recent visitor from the stars is making some scientists feel watched. Imagine a high-tech eye, drifting through the vacuum of space for millennia, ...