Several locations around the world are inundated with polluted water and the situation in these hot spots may only get worse in the coming years. This water pollution mainly comes from the leakage of ...

The gleaming "green" label on your favorite cleaning product might not be as environmentally pure as you think. Despite promises of being better for the planet, some eco-friendly cleaners continue to ...

Increased toxicity from plastic pollution in a warmer climate is highly likely to be affecting whole ecosystems, with ...

Claire Carlson ’23 was a 2022-23 Environmental Ethics Fellow with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. Improper dumping and waste disposal from corporations impacts the ...

Oil refineries release billions of pounds of pollution annually into waterways, and that pollution disproportionately affects people of color, according to a new analysis of Environmental Protection ...

Our current environment has a few issues, and many of these appear to be deteriorating with time. This has brought humans into a period of a serious environmental crisis. Consequently, increasing ...

Climate change conditions turn plastics into more mobile, persistent, and hazardous pollutants. This is done by speeding up plastic breakdown into microplastics—microscopic fragments of ...